The GROWMARK System was among the first to market
and promote the many advantages of renewable fuels.
Today, nearly 70 percent of the gasoline sold annually
by FS member cooperatives is an ethanol-blend.
Our System was also the first to provide retail
availability of the promising E-85 ethanol/gasoline
blend for multi-fuel vehicles. We now market E-85
through 22 retail locations, and that number is growing.
The ethanol sold by the GROWMARK System creates a
market for nearly 4.5 million bushels of corn annually.
Currently, one out of every four rows of corn planted
goes into ethanol production.
Our System sells 500 million gallons of two percent
soy-based biodiesel fuel annually. This creates a market
for nearly seven million bushels of soybeans each year.
FS is an innovator, first on the market with many
biotechnology products. FS Seed and the System-supported
brands (NK, Asgrow, and DEKALB) offer farmers a complete
line of seed and technology.
The Transportation Departments in the U.S. and
Ontario coordinate and arrange for the delivery of more
than 100,000 truckloads of products each year to local
cooperatives. About 350 loads are delivered each day,
with more than 1,300 loads daily during peak season
periods.
Truck deliveries are made by a combination of
dedicated contract carriers and common carrier
operations. These carriers, when combined, travel more
than 14 million miles each year.
Energy Division publishes more than 25,000 fuel and
propane prices at 182 separate terminals each day.
GROWMARK has a distribution center in Alpha, Ill.,
with five acres (240,000 square feet) under one roof,
housing more than 7,000 different items. Annual sales of
products going through the warehouse exceed $150
million. GROWMARK distribution operations include a
facility in Kitchener, Ont. It is an 87,000-square-foot
facility which is ISO 9001:2000 certified, signifying
quality control from receipt of product to its final
delivery.
The GROWMARK Tank and Truck Center in Yorkville,
Ill., assembles liquid fuel and propane delivery units
for customers in seven states.
GROWMARK FS, LLC provides agronomic products and
services to farmers in the Northeast through some 37
retail outlets. GROWMARK FS, LLC markets the FS Brand
line of seed corn, alfalfa, soybeans and forage grasses
designed for the Northeast. It also markets the complete
line of Asgrow and DEKALB Seed lines. The company is one
of the leading marketers of biotechnology seed traits in
the Northeast.
Seedway, LLC is a full-line seed company marketing
farm, turf, and vegetable seed in 14 eastern states and
Ontario, Canada. It markets one of the most complete and
diverse vegetable seed product lines in the industry.
Seedway maintains eight office/warehouse locations in
Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, and Florida.
FS SEEDS-East markets seed corn, alfalfa, soybeans,
forage grasses, and silage innoculants in the Northeast
and Mid-Atlantic states. It is one of the leading
marketers of Roundup Ready® seed.
GROWMARK posted sales of $3.4 billion in fiscal
2005-2006.
