Winterset, Iowa — Agriland FS has opened a new 15,500 st dry fertilizer storage facility in Stuart, Iowa. The state-of-the-art facility is owned by Growmark and managed by Agriland FS, and will serve both wholesale and retail customers. The facility is located on Interstate 80 about 40 miles west of Des Moines, and is serviced by the Iowa Interstate Rail System. The site has seven bins that will store potash, phosphate, urea, ammonium sulfate, and palletized lime, with the bulk of the facility’s storage capacity devoted to potash and phosphate. Most of the products will be delivered to the site by rail, and can be unloaded at a rate of about 400 st/hour from as many as 18 railcars at a time. The facility has a blending capacity of 300 st/hour. Growmark said the Stuart facility complements the acquisition of six CF fertilizer terminals by Growmark in early 2011 (GM Jan. 10, 2011). Most of the facility’s tonnage will come from another Growmark terminal at Mapleton, Iowa.
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