The corn, soybean, and wheat facility ships grain via rail to poultry markets in Mississippi and export markets in the Gulf.
The new rail loadout facility in particular will help speed the transport of grain to market, ensuring storage capacity is available during harvest, according to Effingham, Ill.-based TGM, a full-service grain company that operates 25 elevators across Illinois and Indiana, including six MID-CO Commodities branch offices.
“The new rail loadout facility will help us load railcars at 50,000 bushels per hour from the two new bins, allowing us to load 105-car unit trains in 10 to 12 hours as compared to the 72 hours it used to take,” TGM General Manager Joe Meinhart said. “This is a time savings for our staff and benefits farmers because we’ll be shipping grain to markets in the south faster than ever.”
“I know our existing farmer customers will be excited about our increased dumping capacity because they’ll be able to dump their grain and get back out to the field faster, which is critical during harvest,” TGM Grain Division Manager Ken Meinhart added. “The new storage also raises our total storage capacity to nearly 4.5 million bushels, which will help ensure we have adequate bin capacity during harvest season.”
Separately, CN has published its grain plan required by the government of Canada to assess how much product it expects to move during the 2025-26 crop year (Aug. 1, 2025-July 31, 2026) and to identify the actions it is taking to meet demand. As part of that plan, the railroad is undertaking capacity projects that are expected to be completed this year in Western Canada.
