Farmers local to our area now have more options in terms of managing their corn and soybean harvests. Artel Inland Inc. and Red River Grain Co. have joined forces and will be operating collaboratively from the Artel location two miles east of Niverville.

Artel Inland, owned by Grant Dyck of Niverville, offers custom grain-drying services. Red River Grain Co., based out of Altona, offers the same services but includes transportation and competitive corn, soybean, and oat pricing options for both farmers and end users.

“We specialize in grain handling and marketing, and we’re excited to offer more choice to growers in the Niverville area,” says Evan Erlandson, president of Red River Grain. “This partnership is a great fit for everyone involved—Artel Inland, the local farm community, and our team at Red River Grain.”

For local farmers, the partnership will provide more harvest flexibility, including off-the-combine delivery, onsite storage, and drying services.

When Dyck built Artel Inland years ago, the facility was constructed to such a scale that it could handle not only the increased yield from his own operation but the needs of the local farming community too. It is now one of the biggest grain-dryers in the province.

Artel Inland can receive up to 12,000 bushels per hour, unloading a Super B truck in an average of seven minutes. Trucks picking up grain, usually destined for local feed mills, can be filled in as little as four minutes.

“We see this as a really good partnership, to be a satellite for Red River as a collection point, and another option for buying in the area,” says Grant Dyck, president of Artel Farms. “We really appreciate the team at Red River. [They are] very competent and like-minded progressive thinkers, and we’re looking forward to working with them.”

Dyck sees this new collaboration as phase two of his growing southeast operation, which he hopes to eventually develop into a complete feed corn hub for the region.

“There’s been interest in cooperative bin ownership, so that there’d be more opportunity for people that don’t want to build [bins] on their own farms,” says Dyck. “They could build it with Inland.”