Embrun Co-operative Increases Storage Capacity

About a year ago, Norm Surprenant, crop manager for La Co-operative Agricole d'Embrun put forward a proposal to increase the co-operative’s grain storage capacity to keep up with the upswing in corn production.

At a cost of $600,000, two new storage bins that hold an additional 5,800 metric tons of grain were added to the facility in September and all storage bins at the site are already at full capacity holding 15,000 tonnes of corn.


“This will not be the end of our expansion,” says Surprenant. “There is an obvious decline in the number of dairy and livestock operations because farmers are switching to cash crops, and with the ethanol plant in Johnstown, about an hour away from us, we are pretty confident the demand for corn and the need to store it will continue to be in high demand going forward.”