Brandon, Minn.-Pro-Ag Farmers Cooperative will be moving next fall from the home it has occupied in Brandon Township for over 40 years to modern new spaces that will provide an 11,000 square foot fertilizer plant and a 14,000 square foot office, warehouse, and shop area. The two new buildings on a nine-acre site along County Road 7 will allow easy access to and from Interstate 94. “We’re not on a rail line so this will be a big benefit because it will be an easy in and out for our truck traffic,” reported Pro-Ag General Manager Mark Jaskowiak. He said the expansion is expected to be completed for move-in sometime in October, at an estimated cost of $1,120,000. He said adding the new fertilizer facility will mean going from a four-ton mixer to an eight-ton mixer and from a 70-ton tower to a 150-ton tower, and will increase the Pro-Ag storage capacity from the present 2,000 tons to 6,000 tons. “We’ll be able to move twice as much product as before in a much shorter time,” Jaskowiak noted. One full-time and four part-time jobs are expected to be added eventually to the present six full-time and two part-time employees. The project recently got a boost from the Douglas County board of commissioners in the form of tax increment financing, which applies the increased property taxes from a new development to finance such costs as land acquisition or site development. The present plant, which was built in 1970, will likely be used by Pro-Ag’s grain division for storage.
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