Farmers Cooperative

What Farmers Cooperative does

Farmers Cooperative is a farmer-owned agricultural cooperative founded in 1903 and headquartered in Dorchester, Nebraska, serving member-owners across southeast Nebraska and northeast Kansas through 25+ branch locations, C-Stores, mobile service fleets, and an online customer portal. The cooperative operates across six integrated divisions: Grain (cash bids, futures/options trading, shuttle loading on BNSF railroad, multi-million bushel storage capacity), Agronomy (seed, fertilizer, crop protection chemicals, Skytech drone services for aerial scouting and fungicide application), Precision Ag (ProFarm data services, grid soil sampling, FC Weather station network, Climate FieldView integration), Energy (propane, gasoline including E-15 transition, diesel, fuel cards, C-Store retail), Feed (Purina-branded cattle nutrition, mineral and preconditioning programs), and Tires & Lubricants (agricultural tires, mobile on-farm tire service, United Lubricants products, DEF distribution).

The cooperative monetizes through transaction-based fees across each product line — grain origination at origin points, product sales of seed/fertilizer/chemicals at agronomy branches, propane and fuel contracting, feed and supplement sales at feed mill locations, and tire/lube product sales and service labor. Pricing for grain is publicly available via real-time cash bids on the website (sourced from Barchart Solutions with at least 10-minute delay); pricing for other categories is not publicly disclosed and requires direct inquiry or portal access. Customer segments include row crop farmers (primary), agricultural producers seeking crop inputs (primary), farm and residential energy customers (primary), cattle producers, and farm equipment owners. The MyGrower customer portal enables digital account management including invoicing, contract eSign, payment processing, and real-time grain settlement viewing.

The cooperative is a member of the Land O'Lakes cooperative network and participates in WinField United agronomy partnerships, BNSF rail logistics, and emerging low-carbon fertilizer supply chains with CF Industries and POET. Recent strategic capital deployment includes construction of a 3.7M bushel grain shuttle loading facility near Pawnee City (operational fall 2026), prior 2020 storage expansion exceeding 6.5M bushels, and an E-15 gasoline transition across energy operations. The company has 251–500 employees and operates as a private cooperative governed by a Board of Directors with no public listing, parent company, or external equity ownership.

Name

Farmers Cooperative

Legal name

Farmers Cooperative - Dorchester

Website

https://farmersco-operative.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1903

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Farmers Cooperative is a farmer-owned agricultural cooperative founded in 1903 and headquartered in Dorchester, Nebraska, serving member-owners across southeast Nebraska and northeast Kansas with grain marketing, agronomy, precision agriculture, energy, feed, and tire and lubricant services through 25+ branch locations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Agricultural Cooperative Services

NAICS

Farm Supplies Merchant Wholesalers (42491), Support Activities for Animal Production (115210)

SIC

Agricultural Services (700)

akta.pro primary industry

Farmer Cooperatives & Co-op Retail (AFABAJAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Farm Supply Retail (Independent Dealers) (AFABAJAA)

Keywords

• Agricultural cooperative services
• Grain marketing storage
• Precision agriculture solutions
• Agronomy crop inputs
• Propane fuel distribution

Headquarters

HQ city

Dorchester

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices26 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Infrastructure, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Grain Marketing & Storage: Grain origination, cash grain bids, futures and options trading, risk management programs, shuttle loading facilities, and grain storage. The cooperative arbitrages in competitive markets including exports, domestic and local processors to deliver competitive price advantages to member-owners. Construction of a new shuttle loading facility near Pawnee City (3.7M bushel capacity, 110-car shuttle on BNSF) expands storage and shipping capability.
2. Agronomy Products & Services: Sale of seed, fertilizer, crop protection chemicals, and precision ag services including grid sampling, ProFarm, drone operations (Skytech), and crop scouting. Revenue generated through product sales and service fees at multiple branch locations.
3. Energy Products: Sale of propane, gasoline (transitioning to E-15 blend), diesel, fuel cards, and energy rewards programs (Home Run Energy Rewards Program). Propane delivery and contracting services for residential and agricultural customers in Nebraska and Kansas. Multiple C-Stores provide retail fuel and convenience store revenue.
4. Feed Products: Cattle feed supplements, mineral products, preconditioning programs, and Purina animal nutrition products. Services include feed delivery, cattle nutrition consulting, protein tub trials, and mineral trials. Revenue from product sales and service delivery across feed mill locations.
5. Tire & Lubricant Products & Services: Sale of agricultural, truck, and passenger tires; mobile tire service; tire financing options; lubricants including diesel engine oil, DEF, coolant, and bulk lubricant storage solutions. Revenue from product sales, service labor, and mobile service callouts across multiple tire center locations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Farmers Cooperative is a farmer-owned agricultural cooperative that provides member-owners with grain marketing and storage services, agronomy inputs and precision agriculture services, propane and refined fuels, livestock feed and nutrition, agricultural tires, and lubricants. Revenue is generated through sale of physical inputs (seed, fertilizer, chemicals, tires, fuel, feed, lubricants) and service fees for grain origination, custom application, soil sampling, drone scouting, mobile tire mounting, and feed nutrition consulting delivered through physical branch locations across southeast Nebraska and northeast Kansas.

Product overview

Farmers Cooperative is a Nebraska-based farmer-owned agricultural cooperative offering a diversified portfolio of products and services organized around six core divisions: Grain (cash bids, futures/options, grain handling and shuttle loading facilities), Agronomy (seed, fertilizer, crop protection, Skytech drone services), Precision Ag (ProFarm data services, grid soil sampling, FC Weather station network), Energy (propane, gasoline including E-15, diesel, C-Stores), Feed (Purina-backed cattle nutrition and supplements), and Tires & Lubricants (tire sales, on-farm service, United Lubricants products). The cooperative also provides a Customer Portal and MyGrower app for account management. Services are delivered through multiple Nebraska locations, with a major new grain shuttle loading facility under construction near Pawnee City.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• MyGrower Portal: Customer portal for growers to manage accounts, view grain cash bids, access invoices, and handle contracts digitally.
• Home Run Energy Rewards Program
• Skytech
• ProFarm
• FC Weather
• Cardtrol
• WinField United

Products and services

• Grain marketing and storage Cash grain bids, futures and options trading, risk management programs, shuttle loading, and grain storage across multiple origination locations and a new 3.7M-bushel shuttle loading facility near Pawnee City. Targets farmer member-owners marketing corn, soybeans, wheat, milo, and specialty crops in southeast Nebraska and northeast Kansas.
• Agronomy products and services Sale of seed, fertilizer, and crop protection chemicals along with crop scouting and custom application services for farmer member-owners across multiple branch agronomy locations.
• Skytech drone services Drone-based aerial imaging, crop scouting, and precision fungicide application for farmer member-owners in the cooperative's trade territory.
• ProFarm precision agriculture service Service program that helps farmers use data from precision-ag equipment technology to make whole-farm management decisions across planting, fertility, and harvest planning.
• Grid soil sampling Precision soil sampling service that tests pH, Buffer pH, CEC, Base Saturation, Soluble Salts, Organic Matter, Nitrate-Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium, Sodium, Sulfur, Zinc, Iron, Manganese, and Copper to enable variable-rate fertilizer application.
• Energy products (propane, gasoline, diesel, C-Stores) Propane delivery and contracting, gasoline (transitioning to E-15), diesel, fuel cards, and C-Store retail for farm operators and rural residential customers in Nebraska and Kansas.
• Home Run Energy Rewards Program Loyalty rewards program offering producers additional value from propane, gasoline, diesel, and related energy products purchased through Farmers Cooperative.
• SNL 87 E-15 gasoline Refined-fuel offering transitioning from SNL 87 E-10 to SNL 87 gasoline blended with up to 15% ethanol for improved fuel efficiency.
• Feed and cattle nutrition products Cattle feed supplements, mineral products, preconditioning programs, protein tub trials, and Purina animal nutrition products with feed delivery and nutrition consulting for cattle producers.
• Tire sales and mobile service Sale of agricultural, truck, and passenger tires; mobile tire service; tire financing; mounting and balancing; and on-farm tire installation by TIA-certified technicians across the cooperative's tire center locations.
• Lubricants and DEF Sale of diesel engine oils, antifreeze/coolant, diesel exhaust fluid (DEF), and bulk lubricant storage solutions with metered dispenser guns, pumps, and reels sourced through United Lubricants and distributed across over 30 stocking locations.
• Customer Portal (MyGrower) Web-based customer portal enabling grain cash bids and settlements viewing in real-time, access to invoices, contracts, tickets, and statements, online invoice payment, banking info management, eSign contract execution, purchase history tracking, prepay/booking management, and team communication.
• Low-carbon fertilizer supply chain program Distribution of low-carbon ammonia fertilizer from CF Industries' Donaldsonville Complex to corn growers, with carbon-intensity certification tracked through to POET ethanol production for lower-carbon ethanol. Targets corn growers in Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Nebraska.
• FC Weather station network Network of local weather stations providing real-time and historical data on air and soil temperature, wind speed and direction, precipitation, solar radiation, relative humidity, and atmospheric pressure for agricultural decision-making.
• Pawnee City grain shuttle loading facility New state-of-the-art grain shuttle loading facility near Pawnee City featuring 3.7 million bushels of storage capacity, four concrete tubes (820,000 bushels each), a 110-car shuttle shipper on BNSF railroad, and 4 x 20,000 bu/hr grain pits with independent receiving legs.

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduced fertilizer costs through grid sampling by preventing over-application in high-nutrient zones and ensuring adequate application in low-nutrient zones
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Twelve partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• CF Industries HoldingscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 27 January 2026Farmers Cooperative is one of several agricultural cooperatives (alongside WinField United, NuWay-K&H, and New Cooperative) participating in a pilot project with CF Industries and POET to develop a low-carbon fertilizer supply chain linking CF Industries' low-carbon ammonia — produced at its Donaldsonville Complex by capturing and permanently storing CO2 emissions — to corn growers, with POET using the resulting corn to produce lower-carbon ethanol. The consortium completed its first distribution and application of low-carbon ammonia fertilizer in fall 2025. POET expects to produce an estimated 5–6 million gallons of lower-carbon ethanol from corn grown using the low-carbon fertilizer.
• POETcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 27 January 2026POET, the world's largest biofuel producer, partnered with CF Industries and agricultural cooperatives including Farmers Cooperative to launch a low-carbon fertilizer supply chain pilot. POET receives corn grown with low-carbon ammonia fertilizer from participating farmers and uses it to produce an estimated 5–6 million gallons of lower-carbon intensity ethanol. The pilot tracks carbon intensity certification from production through to ethanol output.
• WinField UnitedcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorWinField United logo appears on the Farmers Cooperative website as a partner, indicating a product sourcing and distribution relationship for agronomy inputs including seed and crop protection products. WinField United is an agronomy solutions provider and subsidiary of Land O'Lakes.
• Land O'LakescoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorFarmers Cooperative is a member-owner of the Land O'Lakes cooperative network. The partnership includes participation in Land O'Lakes Foundation matching donations for community programs ($40,000 matched by Land O'Lakes Foundation), the First Run Program food donation initiative, and the AgRogue Growth Partners agricultural technology investment coalition.
• New CooperativeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNew Cooperative is one of the four agricultural cooperatives participating in the CF Industries and POET low-carbon fertilizer pilot alongside Farmers Cooperative, WinField United, and NuWay-K&H.
• NuWay-K&H CooperativeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNuWay-K&H Cooperative is one of the four agricultural cooperatives participating in the CF Industries and POET low-carbon fertilizer pilot alongside Farmers Cooperative, WinField United, and New Cooperative.
• CHS Inc.minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCHS Inc. is a vendor partner collaborating with Farmers Cooperative on the Community Grant Program, providing matching funds for eligible community projects submitted by 501(c)(3) charities, schools, and units of government within Farmers Cooperative's trade territory. CHS matching funds are subject to fund availability and are evaluated based on community impact.
• Alabama Farmers CooperativeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAlabama Farmers Cooperative joined Land O'Lakes in launching AgRogue Growth Partners, an initiative that will invest up to $7 million in each of 10 to 15 companies focused on agricultural technology innovation. The coalition also includes GreenPoint Ag and four additional retail co-ops from Indiana, Nebraska, and Minnesota, managed by Radicle Growth. Farmers Cooperative participates as one of the Nebraska retail co-ops in the coalition.
• Purina Animal NutritioncoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorFarmers Cooperative operates a feed division offering Purina Animal Nutrition products including cattle feed supplements, preconditioning programs, mineral products, and protein tub trials. Intern programs include Purina feed sales and feed operations internships. The partnership includes on-farm mineral trials and fly control studies conducted with Purina products. Purina supplies Accuration, Precon, Stress Care 5, and other nutrition products.
• BNSF RailwaycoreOthersBNSF Railway provides rail transportation services for Farmers Cooperative's grain shuttle loading operations. The new Pawnee City facility includes a 110-car shuttle shipper on the BNSF railroad, enabling efficient grain transport to domestic and export markets including the Texas Gulf and Pacific Northwest.
• United LubricantsminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorFarmers Cooperative distributes United Lubricants products including diesel engine oils (United Super Premium Fleet with shear-stable viscosity modifier), antifreeze/coolant, and related lubricants. Brian Irwin serves as Lubricants Manager for Farmers Cooperative. United Lubricants products are tested at every step of the manufacturing process.
• United CoolantsminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorFarmers Cooperative partners with United Coolants to provide cooling system solutions. As noted by Farmers Cooperative's Lubricants Manager Brian Irwin, 40% of all engine failures can be linked to cooling system issues, and United Coolants products address this through properly formulated antifreeze/coolant formulations.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• CHS Inc. CHS Inc. is the largest U.S. agricultural cooperative, operating energy, agronomy, grain, and food businesses nationally. It is comparable to Farmers Cooperative as a multi-divisional farmer-owned cooperative model with grain origination and agronomy input distribution at scale.
• Land O'Lakes: Land O'Lakes is a member-owned agricultural cooperative that owns WinField United agronomy and participates in community/foundation programs with member co-ops. Farmers Cooperative is a member-owner of Land O'Lakes and benefits from its agronomy input sourcing, so it is a close cooperative-network peer.
• WinField United: WinField United is the agronomy solutions subsidiary of Land O'Lakes that supplies seed, crop protection, and precision ag technology to retail cooperatives including Farmers Cooperative. It is a direct channel partner and a comparable crop-input solutions provider in the same member-cooperative ecosystem.

Direct peers

• New Cooperative: New Cooperative is an Iowa-based farmer-owned cooperative that is co-participating with Farmers Cooperative in the CF Industries and POET low-carbon fertilizer pilot. Both serve row-crop farmers with grain, agronomy, and energy offerings, making New Cooperative a direct structural peer.
• NuWay-K&H Cooperative: NuWay-K&H is a Minnesota-based agricultural cooperative that is also a co-participant in the low-carbon fertilizer pilot alongside Farmers Cooperative. Its grain, agronomy, and energy service mix parallels Farmers Cooperative's offerings in the upper Midwest.
• GreenPoint Ag: GreenPoint Ag is a farmer-owned retail agronomy cooperative and fellow AgRogue Growth Partners coalition member with Farmers Cooperative. Its crop input and agronomy service focus makes it directly comparable on the agronomy input side of the business.
• Growmark: Growmark is a large regional farmer-owned cooperative providing grain, agronomy, energy, and tire services across the Midwest. Its full-service cooperative model with FS-branded inputs is structurally analogous to Farmers Cooperative's grain/agronomy/energy offering.
• Heartland Co-op: Heartland Co-op is an Iowa-based farmer-owned cooperative offering grain, agronomy, and feed services to row-crop farmers. Its Iowa trade territory overlaps conceptually with Farmers Cooperative's Nebraska/Kansas footprint and the multi-divisional structure is highly comparable.
• Frontier Cooperative: Frontier Cooperative is a Nebraska-based farmer-owned cooperative serving row-crop farmers with grain handling, agronomy, energy, and feed divisions. It is among the closest geographic and structural peers to Farmers Cooperative within the state.

Regional players

• Alabama Farmers Cooperative: Alabama Farmers Cooperative is another Land O'Lakes-aligned retail co-op that co-launched AgRogue Growth Partners alongside Farmers Cooperative. While regionally focused on the southeastern U.S., the cooperative structure, agronomy supply model, and venture strategy are directly comparable.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/My_Farmers_Coop
• Facebookfacebook.com/FarmersCooperative
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/farmers-cooperative

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles23 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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