Dirt work progressing at Mid-Iowa expansion

The much-publicized $14 million grain elevator project between Grundy Center and The Mill is well underway for Mid-Iowa Cooperative as cranes and bulldozers from PCI have spent the last several weeks at the site.
           
Mid-Iowa, which already has Grundy County locations in Conrad, Beaman and rural Whitten, first approached economic development officials and the board of supervisors about the new facility last summer, and it is expected to create three or four permanent jobs while offering storage to farmers in the northern Grundy County corridor. According to CEO Mike Kinley, the company is hoping to have it operational sometime in the next year.
           
“It’ll definitely be ready by harvest,” he said. “It’ll be full blown ready to go.”
 
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