BCP News

For the most part in our area, harvest has wrapped up and local producers are working on any remaining field work.  Overall, most of our producers have reported average to below average yields with high variability across fields due to too much rainfall this year.  Our area also experienced a couple of widespread hail events […]

Greetings from the Benson Corn Pool! As you are reading this, harvest should be mostly wrapped up in the local trade area of the plant. After a summer of numerous flooding/rain events and hailstorms, a lot of questions will be answered as to the size and quality of the corn crop in our trade area.

As we reach the end of another year, it feels like we were just here, finishing up harvest.  The mild fall weather has allowed the leaves to hang on a little longer and it’s been cooperative for getting the crops out of the field. At the office, we are wrapping up the fiscal year and

Another fiscal year is almost wrapped up and we have enjoyed assisting our corn pool members fulfill their delivery commitment to CVAC. The audit is nearing completion and will be presented at the BCP Board of Director’s meeting on November 15th.  To recap the year, BCP ended FY2023 with an enrollment of 11,905,260 bushels. To

As the 2024 crop season is wrapping up, locally I feel fortunate to have ended up with the crop that we did considering the wet first half of the year.  Overall, I think our area has harvested an average corn crop, with pockets of below and pockets of above average yields in our draw.  With

I am your new Benson Corn Pool chairman, Dave Nagler. I took over as chairman this past year replacing Roger Longhenry, who retired from the board this past January. I would like to thank Roger for his many years of service to the Benson Corn Pool. Roger was one of the original board members and

This year it was hard to stay on the right side of the market. Brody was able to keep the plant with a good supply of corn but at a higher price to the corn pool. When the market is continually going lower that works against the corn pool so our margin call will be

Once again, we have wrapped up a successful year of fulfilling shareholder delivery commitments for our BCP members. September 30, 2023 marked the end of our fiscal year and the auditors are nearing completion, with the audit to be presented at the BCP Board of Director’s meeting on November 17th. To recap, BCP ended FY2022

The 2023 crop year is quickly coming to an end as the majority of producers in our area have completed their harvest.  While there were certainly pockets of below average yields, and several producers had to fight through downed corn, overall it seems that our local crop exceeded expectations and should be a sufficient supply

There have been some changes again this year. With Covid backing off and more travel happening, we have been running the plant at full rate. The price of ethanol was good this year. Brody did a great job buying corn and keeping the bins full. This is such a benefit to the corn pool. We