With locations in Garden City, Ulysses and Dighton, our finance team are the backbone of our operation. The finance team is here to serve our members while working closely with our other divisions. Whether you are looking for someone to help with fuel bids, settling your grain, financing your inputs, or answer your questions around membership and equity, our finance team consists of qualified individuals to address these needs and many more. We also help facilitate the internal functions of the company such as managing payroll and accounts payable, reporting and compliance, risk management, as well as financial tracking, planning and analysis.
What does a grain originator do? What happens to grain once it's stored in an elevator? What's the difference between a basis price and a futures price? What's the difference between and old crop price and a new crop price? In this episode of "Inside the Co-op" we answer those questions by talking to Lindy McMillen, a grain originator here at GCC at our Dighton office....
Weather shouldn't add to your market volatility stress. GCC's Alpine Pro Contract is unique in offering a provision that allows a farmer to be released from the contract in cases of verified crop failure....
Mike Karst from Sustainable Oils, GCC staff, and area farmers gathered for a tour of Camelina fields being grown at Triangle H and Schmeeckle Farms. The crop is being grown as a trial, to ultimately be purchased by ExxonMobil as a renewable diesel source. For more information about Camelina visit: https://www.gccoop.com/News/Garden-City-News/New-Grain-Offering-Camelina...
Through the generosity of Otis & Mary Lee Molz - the Garden City Community College is offering up to 6 FULL RIDE scholarships to students if you are a Co-op member or employee or an immediate family member of either. To apply, fill out the application here: https://gcccks.edu/tuition_cost/schol... Answer the questions given on a separate word document and send them to: stephanie.janda@gcccks.edu...
To help maximize your input dollar, the Garden City Co-op has access to multiple input financing programs to meet different credit needs for agronomy inputs. Based on the product or service being financed, we can provide a program with a rate, term, and credit amount that best fits your cash flow needs. Depending on credit qualifications, we can extend regular credit terms, or provide input financing through partner programs. We offer programs through CFA, Secure by Winfield® United, John Deere® Financial, Rabobank, and seed and crop protection programs through select manufacturers.
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Holly grew up in the town of Fay, Oklahoma, a small town Northwest of Oklahoma City, graduating from Thomas-Fay-Custer High School in Thomas, OK. Holly attended Northwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva, OK where she graduated with a B.S. degree in Psychology. She began working for Sullivan Inc. in 1999 in Ulysses as scale help during wheat harvest in the summer. Cowan didn't intend to stay but the harvest temp help position turned into a full time job and she became more involved in grain accounting, accounts receivable, and accounts payables. While she was growing up, Cowan's parents had operated a custom harvest crew and the family would travel from Texas to North Dakota every summer; an experience that made an impact on Cowan and would ultimately lead to her staying instead of pursuing other career paths. Sullivan, Inc. was purchased by GCC in 2006 and the GCC Crop Production accounting responsibilities were also added to Cowan's list of assigned tasks. In 2019, Holly took over as the Human Resources and Administrative Services Manager upon the retirement of Caroline Duvall. Her twenty previous years in the accounting department has given her a lot of experience with the co-op, particularly in grain and crop production accounting. Holly married her husband Daron, who also works in the ag industry, in 1998. They live in Ulysses with one daughter, Lily. Holly is a coach for her daughter's Odyssey of the mind team, active in her 4-H projects and volunteers at her church. She also enjoys cooking, shopping and home projects. She will graduate with her Master's Degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Kansas State University December 2019. Cowan states that the best part of working for the co-op is "The great people / coworkers and the farmers."
Annie Gerber is our Talent & Partnership Coordinator. Annie is a Garden City native, who has found value in southwest Kansas and what it has to offer others. Annie helps out GCC in finding talent to enhance the pipeline of our company and the ag industry. She also is developing relationships alongside our communities, schools and universities across our area. If you have any questions about working for GCC or building a relationship with us whether it is to your school, classroom or business. Contact her at 620-275-6161 or at agerber@gccoop.com