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will allow farmers in north central Missouri and southern Iowa to deliver crops to a modern, high-speed grain facility. Its rail siding capacity will provide new efficiencies to MFA Incorporated’s grain division as well as access to new markets.

“Our market-base, right now we can hit Mexico, the Gulf, California and Arizona. We send corn ethanol to Liberal, Kansas. It opens up new markets to sell the grain instead of just truck markets,” Beck said.

The facility opened in 2016, and continues making increases in storage and transportation year after year. Beck said Mother Nature occasionally impacts the those figures through floods and droughts, but sudden upticks in production seems to even out the numbers over time. Beck added a GMO ban in Mexico may impact markets, but similar to the weather, the situation should even out as the market adjusts.

“Annually, we do really, really well. Our biggest as far as grain exports is usually South American - Brazil, Argentina ... To date, this year, exports have been a little slow. We have shipped grain to Mexico, but Mexico is coming out with a GMO ban, so that’s in the news as well,” Beck said. “How that works out, things seem to work themselves out in the end. A lot of our corn goes to feed. Whether that be Mexico, California, Arizonawhoever has the market at the time, we’re ready to ship.”