GCC GRAIN
Since all farms differ in their approach to marketing, we believe you should have options when it comes to handling your grain. At the Garden City Co-op, we take an individualized approach in providing multiple marketing and contracting options and have a knowledgeable team of experts here to help you find the best fit for you, your operation and your risk tolerance.
With 21 grain elevators covering an area of approximately 200 miles, a total federally licensed storage capacity of over 37 million bushels and ranking in the top 100 major grain facilities in North America (Sosland “Grain & Milling Annual Report”), the Garden City Co-op’s aim is to provide speed and efficiency as well as a stable and dependable marketplace for our farmer members.
The Garden City Co-op handles Hard Red Wheat, Hard White Wheat, Milo, Corn, Soybeans and Sunflowers. Check with your local elevator for the receiving availability of a crop.
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Summer Harvest Prep
May 31, 2024
| Garden City
Wheat harvest is one of the most exciting times of the year – and it’s just around the corner. We've got a few pre-harvest best practices to consider to help harvest go as smoothly as possible.
Business Units & Splits Reminder
Feb 09, 2024
| Garden City
As we approach the start of another busy agronomy season, we encourage all our customers to make time this winter to visit with your agronomist or with any of our Crop Production accounting staff to review current accounts as well as set up new accounts for landlords.
Selling Grain Through An Offer
Nov 10, 2023
| Garden City
Wait, you can participate in the market WITHOUT watching it?! Grain originator Lindy McMillen explains how an offer works.
Preharvest Prep
Aug 07, 2023
| Garden City
The extended wheat harvest compressed the preharvest preparation window. Fall harvest is an exciting time for all but tensions can run high. Your local GCC staff is ready and willing to lend a hand! Ease your harvest stresses with these pre-harvest tips.
Daily Grain Commentary
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U.S. GRAIN MARKET COMMENTARY
GCC WEEKLY MARKET COMMENTARY
CURRENT GRAIN CASH BIDS
LATEST VIDEOS
Inside The Co-op: Grain Originators
8/18/2022 8:43:44 PM
What does a grain originator do? What happens to grain once it's stored in an elevator? What's the difference between a basis price and a futures price? What's the difference between and old crop price and a new crop price? In this episode of "Inside the Co-op" we answer those questions by talking to Lindy McMillen, a grain originator here at GCC at our Dighton office. ...
Introducing Alpine Pro
7/6/2021 1:21:41 PM
Weather shouldn't add to your market volatility stress. GCC's Alpine Pro Contract is unique in offering a provision that allows a farmer to be released from the contract in cases of verified crop failure. ...
Camelina Field Day Tours: Triangle H & Schmeeckle Farms
5/13/2021 4:43:20 PM
Mike Karst from Sustainable Oils, GCC staff, and area farmers gathered for a tour of Camelina fields being grown at Triangle H and Schmeeckle Farms. The crop is being grown as a trial, to ultimately be purchased by ExxonMobil as a renewable diesel source. For more information about Camelina visit: https://www.gccoop.com/News/Garden-City-News/New-Grain-Offering-Camelina ...
Molz Cooperative Scholarship NOW AVAILABLE for the 2021- 2022 school year
2/12/2021 4:41:41 PM
Through the generosity of Otis & Mary Lee Molz - the Garden City Community College is offering up to 6 FULL RIDE scholarships to students if you are a Co-op member or employee or an immediate family member of either. To apply, fill out the application here: https://gcccks.edu/tuition_cost/schol... Answer the questions given on a separate word document and send them to: stephanie.janda@gcccks.edu ...
GRAIN MARKETING PROGRAMS
Large or small operation, aggressive or conservative approach, the Garden City Co-op has you covered - offering a variety of marketing programs to provide your farm with the best choice of risk management tools possible. Our grain experts are the best at what they do, with personalized service garnered through a trusted partnership with each of our members.
Using the knowledge and insight from that relationship, our grain team can help you select from a variety of offerings to find a marketing program that is the right fit for you and your operation.
GRAIN PRICE HISTORY
We keep records of cash bids so you don't have to! Check how prices have fluctuated over the years in our Grain Marketing History Archive.
GRAIN TEAM
GRAIN LEADERSHIP
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Michael Wisner
Vice President - Grain
Wisner comes to Garden City from Phillipsburg, Kansas where he most recently was the Director of Purchasing for Prairie Horizon Agri-Energy.
He brings a diversified background of buying, selling and hedging a variety of raw materials, including grains and energies. He is familiar with fundamental and technical market drivers and how to apply strategies to maximize current market trends. He is recognized for his skills in negotiation, market consulting and ability to communicate with key stakeholders.
He also brings experience as a GAP Partnerships expert negotiator, education with StoneX - Hedging with Futures and Options and he sat on the Phillipsburg City Council from 2018 to 2020.
Wisner holds a B.S. in Economics and a Master’s in Agribusiness from Kansas State University.
Grant Geyer
Director of Grain Operations
Grant Geyer has been the Director of Grain Operations since August of 2023. He previously worked as the safety director from June 2016 to August 2023 and before that worked as the Grain Elevator Manager at Lowe.
He currently resides in Garden City, Kansas with his wife Landi, two children and two dogs. He is sports fan who loves the Royals and Chiefs and still plays recreationally when time allows. Born in Garden City and raised in Leoti, Kansas he is proud to live close to home and work as the Director of Grain Operations for the Garden City Co-op.
Lance Martindale
Dighton Area Grain Manager
Kevin Dickson
Garden City Area Grain Manager
Kevin was raised in Lakin, graduating from Lakin High School in 1981. In 1975 he began working with his family and local farmers in custom harvesting and farming, as a laborer and mechanic as well as a truck driver. Kevin’s first harvest job was operating combine at the age of 12. He traveled with the crew in the summers, cutting wheat from Oklahoma to South Dakota and worked fall harvests at home in Lakin, Kansas. Weekends between harvests were spent farming and maintaining pivot irrigation systems on a farm South of Lakin.
Following graduation from Lakin High School, Kevin attended pipe welding school. In the spring of 1982, after building a temporary feedyard for cattle that were starving on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Farmington, New Mexico, he spent the summer harvesting a large irrigated wheat and pinto bean operation south of Valentine, Texas on the Mexican border. Kevin returned to Farmington, NM in the G C C E m p l o y e e s | 11 fall where he helped his father, who was partner in a firm contracting with Navajo Agricultural Products Industry (NAPI) harvesting Barley, HRW and HRS Wheat, Pinto and Navy Beans, Corn, Potatoes and Indian Ricegrass Seed.
Kevin began his employment with the Garden City Co-op in March of 1986, accepting a position as an elevator operator at the Wolf Elevator, becoming branch manager in 1987 and transferring to the main office as a grain merchandiser in 1997. In 2024 he moved back to grain operations as an area supervisor.
Kevin is married to Diane and they have a son, two daughters, a son-in-law and three grandchildren.
Joe Varela
Garden City Area Grain Manager
Juan Barron
Ulysses & Hooker Area Grain Manager
Rachel Livermore
Grain Accounting Supervisor
Joey Lopez
Grain Fleet Manager
GRAIN BRANCH MANAGERS
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Refugio Barron
Branch Manager - Milepost
Jamie Beltran
Branch Manager - Ulysses
Gustavo Cruz
Branch Manager - Friend
Victor Duarte
Branch Manager - Garden A/B
Angel Flores
Asst. Rail Terminal Location Manager
Pedro Hernandez
Branch Manager - Tennis
Jose Lopez
Rail Terminal Location Manager - River Valley
Jose Lopez
Rail Terminal Location Manager - River Valley
Office: (620) 260-2151
Cell: (620) 214-7155
Henry Miller
Branch Manager - Alamota
Jonathan Montoya
Branch Manager - Rock Island
Sam Perez
Branch Manager - Hooker
Hugo Reveles
Branch Manager - Charleston
Marcus Rowe
Branch Manager - Shields
Kurt Strasser
Branch Manager - Plymell
GRAIN ACCOUNTING
GRAIN MARKETING
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Nathan Flores
Associate Grain Originator
Lindy McMillen
Sorghum & Wheat Merchandiser
Lindy grew up south of Garden City and has always been involved in agriculture. She graduated from Kansas State University in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Economics. After college, Lindy spent almost three years with Cargill in grain origination, located first in Overland Park, Kansas and then in Cheyenne Wells, Colorado. Lindy and her husband Matt knew that they eventually wanted to end up back in western Kansas. When the opportunity came up in Spring 2020 for them to move to Matt’s family farm south of Dighton, they jumped at the chance. Lindy works out of our Dighton office, and is excited about offering her perspective to serve farmers’ risk management needs
Michael Wisner
Vice President - Grain
Wisner comes to Garden City from Phillipsburg, Kansas where he most recently was the Director of Purchasing for Prairie Horizon Agri-Energy.
He brings a diversified background of buying, selling and hedging a variety of raw materials, including grains and energies. He is familiar with fundamental and technical market drivers and how to apply strategies to maximize current market trends. He is recognized for his skills in negotiation, market consulting and ability to communicate with key stakeholders.
He also brings experience as a GAP Partnerships expert negotiator, education with StoneX - Hedging with Futures and Options and he sat on the Phillipsburg City Council from 2018 to 2020.
Wisner holds a B.S. in Economics and a Master’s in Agribusiness from Kansas State University.
GRAIN ELEVATORS
River Valley Terminal
1503 N. IBP Road
Holcomb, Kansas 67851
620-260-2151---Main-Office,-620-260-2158---Rail-Office