(Atlantic) Elite Octane Commodity Manager Adam Stamp toured area corn fields recently and projects a top five in terms of crop size.
“I don’t know that we’ll be number one, but I certainly think we will be top five in terms of crop size around here,” stated Stamp. “I believe we’ll average north of 200 bushels per acres, I know there are always exceptions with some areas that received hail, but overall our trade area looks pretty darn good.”
This year, the ethanol plant located on the northwest edge of the Atlantic has a new scale automation system to speed up getting trucks in and out of the plant. “A truck pulls in with a card with a chip on it. The antennae pick’s up the signal identifies the truck and who their hauling for. The operator selects the name on the ticket and verifies all the information is correct, and once the load is probed and graded the truck moves on to the scale. The sensor activates the scale, and once weighed the truck gets the green light to dump in either on other 30,000 bushel and hour legs, and the truck is ready to head back out the other side.”
Elite Octane has four million bushels of bin storage and three to possibly four million more storage capacity outside.
