LARRABEE

The Larrabee branch of First Cooperative Association has 11 Full-time employees, including the grain department and feed department.

In 1989, Farmers coop of Larrabee merged with Cleghorn, Cherokee, and Marcus, to form First Farmers Coop. During the First Farmers era, to improve the speed of grain receiving at harvest time, First Farmers placed a 5,000 bushel Friesen bin to utilize another dump for soybeans. This allowed us to be able to truck soybeans out during harvest without interfering with producers dumping of soybeans.

On March 1, 1997, First Farmers Coop merged with First Cooperative Association. This merger gave us the opportunity to build more storage at Larrabee. We built a 365,000 bushel steel bin for corn storage. Along with the bin construction, we added another receiving pit and leg, at 10,000 bph.

In the spring of 1999, First Coop constructed two more steel bins for corn storage, one 365,000 bushel bin and one 490,000 bushel bin. We brought in a Zimmerman dryer from Marathon to increase drying from 900 bph to 2,000 bph.

The 3 steel bins equal 1.2 million bushels of storage.
Total corn storage equals 1.28 million bushels.
Total soybean storage equals 230,000 bushels, for a grand total of 1.5 million bushels of storage.

Larrabee also operates the feed mill known as Feed Partners that ties in with the grain storage. Startup date was April 1, 1999; the feed mill is currently averaging 12000 bu. of corn per day, and is currently producing 500 ton of feed per day. Five 24-ton semi’s and two 18-ton tandem axle trucks deliver the feed.

Larrabee Location
120 Depot Street 
Larrabee, IA 51029 
Main Line
712-437-2211 
FAX Line 712-437-2298 
Toll Free Line
800-650-2641 

Feed Partners
308 Railroad Street
Larrabee, IA 51029
Main Line
712-437-2206
Fax Line
712-437-2208
Toll Free Line
877-527-6455

Contacts:
Location Manager Grain Office
Cory Weiler, cweiler@firstcoop.com
Feed Mill Manager
Paul Richter, prichter@firstcoop.com
Feedmill, larrabee@firstcoop.com

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