Neepawa-Gladstone Co-op officially opens new cardlock and dry fertilizer facilities

By Casper Wehrhahn Neepawa Banner & Press

A healthy crowd turned out to the Neepawa-Gladstone Co-op’s official opening of the brand new cardlock and dry fertilizer facilities on Apr. 25. Petroleum division manager Tracy Wehrhahn and agro division manager Rob Melnyk extended their thanks to all those who were able to attend and provided the opening speeches.

“Both of these facilities have been a while in the planning and construction, but today we’re very happy to announce that they are both up and running to better serve the community and surrounding areas of Neepawa,” said Wehrhahn. “We hope that you enjoy the option of this 24-hour cardlock facility.”

Regular, dyed gas, premium, dyed premium, clear and dyed diesel, along with Def, are all available at the cardlock. There are also two high-speed diesel pumps with satellite pumps to enable faster filling of semis and larger equipment.

“When we started planning the [dry fertilizer] facility, one of our main goals was to increase our loading speeds,” said Melnyk. “As farm equipment gets big- ger and time egts tighter, especially at seeding, we wanted to make sure our farm customers can get their fertilizer loaded and get back out to the fields as fast as possible.”

In accordance with this desire, the fertilizer facility is equipped with extra bins for storing basic products as well as specialty products such as Super U, MST and ESN; twin loadout hoppers,

300 ton per hour blending and more.

“We look forward to you ‘trying out’ our new system this spring,” said Melnyk. “By far the fastest loading fertilizer plant in our marketplace.”