CHS has announced plans to build a new soyabean crushing facility in Wisconsin. Image source: Pixabay
US agribusiness co-operative CHS has announced plans to build a new soyabean crushing facility in Evansville, Wisconsin, USA.
The new 80M bushels/year facility would expand market access to meet growing demand for soyabean oil and meal, the company said on 14 September.
Expected to produce around 453,592 tonnes (pounds)/year of soyabean oil and 2M tonnes/year of soyabean meal, CHS said the facility would supply growing domestic markets for food, animal feed and biofuel feedstocks.
Construction was scheduled to begin in the weeks after CHS’s announcement, with completion targeted in the latter half of 2028.
“Investments like this help CHS create additional value for our owners and customers by expanding market access, strengthening our processing network and creating new demand opportunities for US-grown soyabeans,” said John Griffith, executive vice president of agriculture business and CHS Hedging.
“Strong demand across food, feed and renewable fuel markets, coupled with policies that encourage domestic processing, manufacturing and energy production, reinforce the need for additional soyabean processing capacity in the USA.”
The facility would increase soyabean processing capacity in southern Wisconsin, a region with strong soyabean production and significant demand for soyabean meal from livestock producers, the company added.
The new facility would complement the company’s existing oilseed processing operations in Minnesota. In Hallock, CHS processes 525,000 tonnes/year of canola, and in Fairmont and Mankato, Minnesota, it processes approximately 119M bushels/year of soyabeans.
Once the Evansville facility was operational, the company’s soyabean processing capacity would increase by more than two-thirds, CHS said.
As the largest farmer-owned cooperative in the USA, CHS has customers in 65 countries.
In 2025, its agronomy, grains, foods and energy businesses recorded revenues of US$35.5bn.
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