Megan Tusa, Crystal Valley Grain Marketer, shares her insight with the latest grain market update.

Sitting down at her desk each morning, Bailey Schiefelbein doesn't always know what will be waiting for her, and she likes it that way. Her position as a Feed Administrative Specialist keeps her on her toes and allows her the opportunity to have no two days that are exactly alike

Kyle Leary, Crystal Valley Grain Marketer, shares his insight with the latest grain market update.

Today, Crystal Valley announced a collaboration with Land O’Lakes and internet service provider Midco to expand broadband internet access to residents of Trimont, MN, and the surrounding community. Midco has installed high-speed broadband technology to three towers in the Trimont area including Crystal Valley’s Trimont location, improving access to broadband connectivity throughout the area. This effort to improve internet connectivity has the potential to directly benefit 1,595 residents in the rural area who are currently unable to access adequate broadband service at their homes.

This morning, Crystal Valley employees presented a check for $5,000 to Jackson County Food 4 Kids to help support their mission "to provide meals for food-insecure children in Jackson County on non-school days throughout the school year." With this donation, 14+ kids will have food available to them for an entire year!

Crystal Valley is currently accepting nominations for the Board of Directors.

Tim Lewer - Board Chairman

Are you a budding photographer with a great eye for capturing what harvest looks like? Enter Crystal Valley's Harvest 2021 photo contest!

A formal notification of data-breach is being sent to every customer and company on record at Crystal Valley. Crystal Valley deeply regrets this has occurred, and we apologize for any uneasiness and inconvenience this may have caused.

On Sunday, September 19, Crystal Valley was alerted we had been targeted in a ransomware attack. This attack has infected the computer systems at Crystal Valley and severely interrupted the daily operations of the company.

On Tuesday, September 8th, Crystal Valley, South Central College, and Greater Mankato Growth celebrated the long-awaited ribbon cutting of the newly renovated Crystal Valley Agribusiness Lab at South Central College. Crystal Valley donated $132,275 to South Central College's North Mankato Campus Foundation, which covered half of the lab's construction costs, with the other half paid for with bonding funding from the legislature in 2017 for SCC's North Mankato Renovation project.

Megan Tusa, Crystal Valley Grain Marketer, shares her insight with the latest grain market update.

Luke Hennis, Sales Agronomist Intern, was awarded the 2021 Dan Trullinger Scholarship this summer. This $2,000 scholarship is given to a Crystal Valley intern, in memory of Dan Trullinger, a former Crystal Valley agronomist. He was a great mentor to his interns and took pride in watching them develop their Agronomic skills.

We have been hearing a lot about African Swine Flu in the past few days. The USDA has recently announced the presence of ASF in the Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic is a Caribbean nation that shares its island with Haiti. Because it’s an island, the virus was transported by ship or plane.

Just after 8 am this morning, the construction crew began the continuous cement pour of the slip forms at the new feed mill in Trimont. Work will be non-stop with rotating shifts until the 160+ foot pour is complete.

Over the past month, Crystal Valley hosted the third and fourth intern training with leading industry professionals. On June 18, representatives from Brevant and Corteva joined the group in Nicollet. The presentation covered the products offered and also how their respective companies became who they are today. Before the presentation, interns went to a Crystal Valley research plot in Nicollet, MN, looking at plant health in corn and soybeans.