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....
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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...
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Wisner comes to Garden City from Phillipsburg, Kansas where he most recently was the Director of Purchasing for Prairie Horizon Agri-Energy.
He brings a diversified background of buying, selling and hedging a variety of raw materials, including grains and energies. He is familiar with fundamental and technical market drivers and how to apply strategies to maximize current market trends. He is recognized for his skills in negotiation, market consulting and ability to communicate with key stakeholders.
He also brings experience as a GAP Partnerships expert negotiator, education with StoneX - Hedging with Futures and Options and he sat on the Phillipsburg City Council from 2018 to 2020.
Wisner holds a B.S. in Economics and a Master’s in Agribusiness from Kansas State University.
Kevin was raised in Lakin, graduating from Lakin High School in 1981. In 1975 he began working with his family and local farmers in custom harvesting and farming, as a laborer and mechanic as well as a truck driver. Kevin’s first harvest job was operating combine at the age of 12. He traveled with the crew in the summers, cutting wheat from Oklahoma to South Dakota and worked fall harvests at home in Lakin, Kansas. Weekends between harvests were spent farming and maintaining pivot irrigation systems on a farm South of Lakin. Following graduation from Lakin High School, Kevin attended pipe welding school. In the spring of 1982, after building a temporary feedyard for cattle that were starving on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Farmington, New Mexico, he spent the summer harvesting a large irrigated wheat and pinto bean operation south of Valentine, Texas on the Mexican border. Kevin returned to Farmington, NM in the G C C E m p l o y e e s | 11 fall where he helped his father, who was partner in a firm contracting with Navajo Agricultural Products Industry (NAPI) harvesting Barley, HRW and HRS Wheat, Pinto and Navy Beans, Corn, Potatoes and Indian Ricegrass Seed. Kevin began his employment with the Garden City Co-op in March of 1986, accepting a position as an elevator operator at the Wolf Elevator, becoming branch manager in 1987 and transferring to the main office as a grain merchandiser in 1997. Kevin is married to Diane and they have a son, two daughters, a son-in-law and three grandchildren.
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Lindy grew up south of Garden City and has always been involved in agriculture. She graduated from Kansas State University in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Economics. After college, Lindy spent almost three years with Cargill in grain origination, located first in Overland Park, Kansas and then in Cheyenne Wells, Colorado. Lindy and her husband Matt knew that they eventually wanted to end up back in western Kansas. When the opportunity came up in Spring 2020 for them to move to Matt’s family farm south of Dighton, they jumped at the chance. Lindy works out of our Dighton office, and is excited about offering her perspective to serve farmers’ risk management needs
Toby Wilson grew up in Shields and went to Dighton High School. He graduated from Pratt Community College with an Associates Degree in 1992 and transferred to Fort Hays State University. Wilson began work with the Dighton Coop in April of 1994 as second man at the Dighton Elevator. From 1997-2007, Wilson was the location manager of the Shields Elevator. Upon the merger with the Garden City Co-op, Wilson took the role of Dighton Operations Manager from 2007-2009. He then became Elevator Superintendent from 2009-2012. In 2012, Wilson became the Chief Operations Officer for the Garden City Co-op.