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The Huron Expositor • August 12, 2009 Page 11
Broadgrain starts construction on $1 million
expansion project at Seaforth terminal
The Seaforth terminal of Broadgrain Commodities
Inc. is undergoing an expansion worth more than
$1 million that will significantly increase its stor-
age capacity and ability to work with local farmers
this harvest season.
Construction began last month on a new storage
bin measuring 78 feet in diameter and 95 feet high,
which will hold 8,100 metric tonnes of dry corn.
Recently, excavation began for another building,
this one measuring 50 feet wide and 160 feet long,
with enough space to store 1,000 tonnes or more of
wet corn during the harvest season.
Keith McMillan, Broadgrain's commodities buyer,
says the expansion will allow the company to un-
load grain quicker.
"Because we had only one unloading area, it kind
of bottlenecked the system, you could only do so
much at a time and we want to do more business
in the area," he says. "In order to do that, we need
another place to unload."
McMillan expects the construction to be complet-
ed within a few weeks, in time for the busy harvest
season.
"A lot of our customers have gotten bigger and
they're moving more grain off the field to the eleva-
tor quicker. When they land here, they're landing
with about 45 tonnes of wet grain and they're do-
ing that in an hour," McMillan says. "This is just
to streamline the system and speed it up and give'
them another opportunity to market their grain in.
the area."
The company started in 2003 and since then dry-
ing facilities and shipping bins have been added to
the site, as well as a rail terminal.
Along with storing dry and wet grain, Broadgrain
is also a licensed commercial grain broker and sup-
plies soy meal to the feed industry and corn to pro-
duce ethanol.
McMillan says that even though market prices on
commodities in Canada have been
down for the past two months due
to a sizable American crop, there
is still enough optimismthat the
market will improve.
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Keith McMillan, a commodities buyer at the Broadgrain's Seaforth terminal, stands in front of a
partially completed storms bin being built this week. Two projects worth more than 61 million are
expected to be completed before the
start of harvest season.
"There is still going to' be a lot of
weather issues and crop quality
Issues coming forward that may
make some opportunities for a
farmer to get a little better price,"
McMillan says.
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