Landus Cooperative Presented with Spirit of Excellence Award

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February 5, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Carroll Area Development Corporation presented Mark Cullen, Chief Animal Nutrition Officer and Kevin Grundmeier, SoyPlus® Plant Manager of Landus Cooperative with The Spirit of Excellence award on February 5, 2019. The Spirit of Excellence award recognizes Carroll County businesses that invest resources in projects that result in a larger property tax base and additional quality jobs in Carroll County. Landus Cooperative recently completed $27 million project to increase soybean processing capacity by 50 percent at its SoyPlus® manufacturing facility in Ralston. SoyPlus® is an industry-leading high bypass protein dairy feed ingredient used in dairy rations across the world. The expansion has created 11 new full-time, family-wage positions. As a farmer-owned cooperative, Landus Cooperative originates soybeans from its membership of more than 7,000 farmers in Iowa and parts of Minnesota. The cooperative estimates 30-50 percent of all soybeans purchased from farmers this year at its nearly 670 grain locations will be processed into SoyPlus® at the Ralston plant. Landus CooperativeTM is a farmer-owned agricultural cooperative, headquartered in Ames, Iowa that has a global reach and a local touch with more than 600 full-time employees at locations in more than 60 communities in Iowa and Minnesota. Landus Cooperative is one of North America’s largest grain storage companies and has shuttle-loading access on all seven, major Iowa rail lines. The diversified farmer-owned cooperative offers precision agronomy services with more than 40 agronomists on staff; a proprietary, member-owned brand of soybeans; expert grain marketing services; as well as corn and soybean processing including a facility in Ralston, Iowa which manufacturers SoyPlus® # # #