Federated Co-operatives Ltd. has commissioned high-throughput fertilizer terminals in Brandon, Man., and Saskatoon, Sask., that will supply Co-op locations and agricultural producers across the Prairies.
The 68,000-square-foot terminal in Brandon has the capacity to house 27,500 tonnes of fertilizer while the Hanley terminal is 96,000 square feet and has the capacity to store 45,000 tonnes of fertilizer. The facilities were constructed on a combined budget of $75 million, a company news release said.
Hanley has five full-time employees, while the Brandon facility has four.
Each terminal can load a super B trailer of blended fertilizer in 10 minutes and dispense up to 400 tonnes of straight fertilizer in an hour.
