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All of us here at Premier Cooperative want to send a huge thank you to everyone that voted us the best grain elevator and co-op in Champaign Urbana, we couldn't have won this award without you! Best Grain Elevator/Co-op for 2020

Yesterday at our Annual Meeting, board member, Ken Hieser was awarded with a plaque commemorating the 35 years he served on the board of Fisher Farmers Grain and Premier Cooperative as well as several years as the President of Fisher Farmers Grain Board. We wish you all the best in...

On Monday, October 26th, The Champaign County Farm Bureau CEO leadership class attended Dewey. This group is made up of high school seniors from Fisher, Gibson City, and Paxton high schools. They have spent previous weeks with famers and other agriculture organizations in the community observing how the harvest process...

We were honored to receive recognition from the Eastern Illinois Foodbank as their Community Partner of the Year! Premier Cooperative truly believes in their mission to feed the hungry and are so proud to support this organization. Due to COVID, their recognition event happened virtually, which you can watch here,...

If you haven’t seen them already Premier has taken another step in promoting our brand by applying our logo to five semi- trailers and one propane bulk storage tank at Miller Station. Two of the trailers are roaming our Northern Region, while the other three are in the South. These...

The Illinois Corn Marketing Board and Illinois Soybean Association recently made a generous donation of 24 gallons of of hand sanitizer produced from Illinois corn and soybeans. This donation is being distributed amongst all of our locations to enhance and maintain the safety of our employees during this harvest season....

Earlier this week, Premier hosted Amy Rademaker of Carle's Rural Health & Farm Safety, and Dave Newcomb of the Illinois Fire Service Institute. With all of the COVID restrictions currently in place, their usual in-person Progressive Agriculture Safety Days will being going virtual this year. Premier Cooperative is a proud...

Miller Station held their Used Oil Days on July 21st, while the event was rained out, we collected a total of around 6,500-6,700 gallons. We sent the Turn Key truck back full with 4,500 gallons and about 2,000 at our location that will be picked up at a later date....

Last week, Premier held their annual Safety Days. Hosted by EHS Manager Adam Stevenson, along with Operations Managers Jason Risley and Ryan Bowles, and guest speaker from IGFA, John Lee. Topics centered around Near Miss Reporting, Incidents Reviews, Hazard Communication & MSDS Online, Safety Team, Bin Entry, Harvest & Dump...

Our Dewey location has been under construction installing a single point load out for rail loading. In the past, we loaded on the East and West elevator to ship grain out by rail. With the current build project, we are going to load rail cars at one location on the...