Growers are experts in making things grow. As a full-service cooperative, Mid-Iowa Cooperative provides the products, services, ag business resources, and technical expertise to help our local producers thrive in central and east-central Iowa.
Our diverse client portfolio reaches across the state to serve 850 members. We’re also the largest direct-ship farm-to-market grain procurement company in the Midwest.
We know trust is earned—never given. Since the merger in 1996 that created Mid-Iowa Cooperative, we’ve experienced 650% growth, putting us into the top 10% of all Iowa cooperatives in terms of sales and profitability.
For more than 75 years, generations of farmers have counted on Mid-Iowa Cooperative, which is rooted in Iowa agriculture. As a farmer-owned, full-service cooperative, we offer you solutions from row-crop management and marketing to feed and fuel.
The members of our staff are professionals in their field who can provide you with in-depth, reliable consulting support for each area of your business. We have six licensed commodity brokers and six licensed crop insurance agents on staff, with more than 70 years of combined experience. We’re ready to provide customized business solutions to help your operation grow.
As a member of the cooperative, you have access not only to this local ag talent, but to ag experts at the national level through our strategic partners and industry contacts. Futures and options brokerage services are provided by LT Capital Management, LLC, a CFTC registered Introducing Broker and NFA member. The trading of derivatives such as futures and options involves substantial risk of loss and you should fully understand those risks prior to trading.
Mid-Iowa Cooperative’s leadership includes a 9-person board of directors who directly oversee the direction and growth of the business. Each one of our board members has a long history of tested field-knowledge and success.
As these directors shape the future of Mid-Iowa, they are guided by the belief we’re stronger together.
Bob Hogle bhogle@midiowacoop.com Steve Simms ssimms@midiowacoop.com Brent Schipper bschipper@midiowacoop.com Kirk Stackhouse kstackhouse@midiowacoop.com Jim Callaway jcallaway@midiowacoop.com Hank Miller hmiller@midiowacoop.com Jeff Hibbs jhibbs@midiowacoop.com Chad Adelmund cadelmund@midiowacoop.com Steve Holl sholl@midiowacoop.com
Board Tours Mid-Iowa Locations We hosted our annual Mid-Iowa board of directors’ facility tour on Tuesday, July 25. Board members visited Mid-Iowa’s eight full-time locations—Conrad, Beaman, Gladbrook, Midway, Green Mountain, Haverhill and Liscomb—to see the facilities and receive an update from each location manager. Pictured here from left to right are Brent Schipper, Steve Simms, Kirk Stackhouse, Bob Hogle, Steve Holl, Hank Miller, Jeff Hibbs, Jim Callaway, and Chad Adelmund.
Cooperatives are organized not only to strengthen bargaining power, to maintain access to competitive markets and to capitalize on new market opportunities, but also to obtain needed products and services on a competitive basis. Membership in a cooperative can improve income opportunities, reduce operating costs and provide risk management.
Farmer cooperatives exist for the mutual benefit of their farmer members, with earnings returned on a patronage basis. Such patronage dividends help boost the income of farmers directly or by reducing the effective cost of the goods and services provided. Mid-Iowa Cooperative is farmer-owned and controlled, governed by a board of directors elected by its farmer members – one member, one vote. It’s a unique accountability.
Interested in becoming a member? Click below to access the Mid-Iowa Cooperative Membership Application. Please print the form, complete all the fields, sign and return via mail along with your initial membership investment. For questions or current status regarding your application, please call your Mid-Iowa Cooperative Financial Manager at (641) 366-2740.
Mail to: Mid-Iowa Cooperative Attn: Financial Manager PO Box 80 Beaman, IA 50609
Click below to open a printable version of the Mid-Iowa Cooperative Credit Application. Please print the form, complete all the fields, sign and return via fax or mail. For questions or the current status of your application, please call your Mid-Iowa Cooperative Credit Manager at (641) 366-2740.
Submit by fax to: Attn: Accounting Department 641-366-3867
Or mail to: Mid-Iowa Cooperative Attn: Accounting Department PO Box 80 Beaman, IA 50609