Agtegra Cooperative
Agtegra Cooperative is a farmer-owned agribusiness committed to providing agronomy, grain, energy, and feed products and services. Agtegra has more than 60 locations and creates jobs for more than 900 employees in eastern North Dakota, and South Dakota.
The cooperative also promotes innovative farming solutions, offering its member and non-member customers aerial application services, precision ag hardware and software, and more.
The principal values which guide the Agtegra Co-op are developing sustainability in agriculture through implementing the latest innovations in technology and science while helping farmers to produce safe and healthy products to succeed in today’s volatile markets.
Overview
| Enterprise size: | 501-1,000 employees |
| Founded: | 1923 |
| Type: | Public Company |
| Industry: | Farm Support Services |
| Revenue: | unknown**** |
| States Served: | |
| Client base: | 6,770 member-owners |
| Website: | www.agtegra.com |
| Headquarters: | Aberdeen, SD |
| Contact phone: | 1-888-429-4902 |
| Address: | 908 Lamont Street South Aberdeen, SD 57401, US |
Area of Activity
Agtegra Cooperative is committed to giving its customers access to the best farming, energy, and feed products and services, as well as in-field assistance to maximize their yields. Thus, Agtegra Coop is an active supplier of:
- Seed (Dekalb, Asgrow, Curry, NK, Croplan, and Credenz seed brands);
- Fertilizer (liquid fertilizers, anhydrous ammonia, and micronutrients);
- Crop protection products (herbicides, fungicides, adjuvants, and insecticides);
- Propane, fuels, and lubricants (Cenex premium diesel fuels [Cenex Ruby Fieldmaster, and Cenex Roadmaster XL], a wide range of Cenex lubricants, Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF), gas blends [including E85, E20, E30, 10% ethanol, and unleaded], as well as bulk propane);
- Animal nutrition products (products by partnering brands Purina and Dakotaland Feeds LLC, including feeds, salt, supplements, pet food, and animal health products);
- Farm supplies and equipment (livestock equipment, including gates, feed bunks, continuous fence, chutes, working tubs, water tanks, posts, etc. farm machinery, and Traeger Grills).
EOSDA Crop Monitoring
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Products, Services And Solutions
Services, branches of activity, specializations of Agtegra Cooperative:
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Agronomy products and services
Agtegra Coop operates more than 40 agronomy locations offering agronomy resources, custom application, and crop protection services.
The cooperative’s Prescription Agronomics project helps producers to improve their yields, provide timely crop nutrient solutions for optimum crop nutrition, and the Agtegra fleet of aerial application equipment provides precision spraying and spread of nutrients.
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Grain marketing assistance
The Agtegra Cooperative grain marketing specialists offer their assistance in managing the customer’s farm, covering the full scope of marketing matters, storage, logistics, risk management, etc.
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Energy Division
The Agtegra Fuel business provides petroleum and energy products and services. The customer can order fuel in bulk, arrange for automated delivery, or fill the vehicle at one of the co-op locations.
Agtegra Cooperative also maintains a full-service shop that provides repair and service on vehicles, engines, and ag equipment.
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Feed Division
Agtegra Cooperative provides a wide range of animal nutrition, supplements, and health products by its partners Purina and Dakotaland Feeds, LLC. The Feed Division team also assists in ration balancing and feed sampling. They also provide nutritional consultations.
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Retail
Agtegra Cooperative operates a Farm Store in Ipswich, SD, which offers farm supplies. These supplies include gates, panels, feed bunks, chutes, working tubs, water tanks, posts, barb wire, and fencing supplies. Also, the customer can rent portable corral systems, cattle tubs, and post pounders.
Partnership And Cooperation
Agtegra Cooperative is continuously looking for new opportunities for its members and making mutually beneficial partnerships in the field of grain, energy, finance, etc.:
- In 2019, to strengthen the co-op’s Energy Division, Agtegra purchased North Star Energy, LLC (NSE), a propane business serving customers in North Dakota and South Dakota which was previously owned equally by three partners, one of which was Agtegra Cooperative.
- Partnering with Calyxt, Agtegra Cooperative provides distribution, storage, and transportation services for Calyxt High Oleic Soybean, also being the only farmer cooperative that can offer its customers the option to grow Calyxt soybeans.
- To provide the members of the cooperative with attractive interest rates, input lines of credit, easy-to-arrange financing, and other financing options to fit the specific crop production needs, Agtegra Cooperative partners with the Cooperative Finance Association (CFA), John Deere Financial, Rabo Agrifinance, WinField Secure, and TruChoice.
EOSDA Crop Monitoring Solutions For Landmark Services Cooperative
- Providing crop yield predictions at the regional level by its main crops
- Automated monitoring of a large number of fields using satellite imagery
- Zoning tool which allows the building of a productivity map for differential fertilizing and drip irrigation
- Historical weather, 14-days weather forecast and weather risks alerts
- Assessment of current and historical vegetation as well as the development of crops based on NDVI, RECI, MSAVI, and NDRE. At each stage of crop growth, the most relevant index can be selected.
- Assessment of vegetation state using an improved cloud mask.