(Hamlin) Landus Cooperative and AMVC are partnering on a new business venture in Audubon County.
Audubon County Board of Supervisor’s Chairman Doug Sorensen says a feed mill is being established east of Hamlin. “A new feed mill will be going up at the Landus grain site just east of Hamlin. It will be a $20 million feed mill and will employ 21 people.”
In order for this to come together the Board of Supervisors had to pass a resolution for tax abatement. “A number of factors played into it. One is that AMVC manages a lot hogs and provides a lot of feed for hogs around Western Iowa. All of that feed as I understand is processed out of county.” Sorensen says, “Landus has this grain elevator that is entirely truck in, truck out and they are sitting right now on a huge pile of corn.”
Sorensen calls this a win-win. “It is proposed to process 8.5 million bushels of corn per year which right now I think the Landus site has 3 or 3.5 million bushels of corn storage so it’s more than they are handling right now, more than double. By my calculations it would be roughly 1/3 of Audubon County’s corn production. It’s a big deal. It will improve the corn basis in Audubon County and probably reduce a lot of people’s trucking costs. It’s a win for everybody.” Sorensen points out this ramps up the need for additional housing within Audubon County.
