Cargill Ltd. is closing its Winnipeg East elevator and service centre as of March 1. 

The facility includes an 8,000-tonne elevator, crop inputs sales and a dry fertilizer plant and shed.

The company said in a news release the facility no longer meets its standards for operating safe, cost efficient farm service networks.

The facility has five full-time employees, all of whom have been presented with transition packages, the company said.