General Manager’s Message – Reflecting on a Year of Progress and Opportunity
By Chad Friese As we close out the 2025 operating year and prepare for another Minnesota winter, I want to take this opportunity to recognize the outstanding efforts of our CVEC staff. Their dedication and resilience have kept our operations strong, enabling us to meet the year’s challenges while positioning the plant for continued success […]
Commodity Comments – Brody Padgett – Commodities Manager
By the time this reaches your mailbox, harvest 2025 will likely be complete. Yields in our area have been extremely variable, and for the most part producers are reporting a below average crop. We also experienced a couple of widespread hail events this summer that caused high levels of vomitoxin in the hail damaged fields, […]
Chairman’s Chat – Harmon Wilts – CVAC Chairman
As you read this newsletter the 2025 harvest is nearly complete. Overall corn yields were good but variable. With excess water and hail this summer the low end was less than 100 bushels per acre to the high end of 260 bushels per acre. The crop came in dryer with average test weight. Good quality […]
Commodity Comments – Brody Padgett – Fall 2024
As I write this, harvest 2024 has come to end for almost all local producers. I’m not sure many would have predicted in August that harvest would wrap up with several days to spare in October, but above average September temperatures and virtually no rain for the past 60 days allowed the corn crop to […]
Chairman’s Chat – Harmon Wilts – Fall 2024
As you read this newsletter the 2024 harvest is complete. Overall corn yields were better than expected, dryer than normal and good test weight. Quality corn is very good for our ethanol production. With the above average corn crop it is great to have CVEC. Without CVEC, think of what the price of corn would […]