FEED MILL AND ELEVATOR

CARTHAGE

The story of Dearwester Grain Services Inc. and Nutrition Services Inc. in and around Carthage, IL can be a little complicated, but both are family-owned businesses with Matt Dearwester as president and CEO.
He and his wife, Andrea, founded Dearwester Grain Services as a grain handling firm in 1996 after purchasing a private grain elevator about 30 miles to the south, in Golden, IL. 

Seven years later, his business purchased a small 165,000-tpy feed mill from Cargill Animal Nutrition on the west side of Carthage and founded Nutrition Services as another family-owned business. “We were maxed out at that location as of 2014,” Matt Dearwester comments. “That 165,000-ton capacity was running 24/7, and our demand was already at 190,000.” He looked at expanding there but decided instead to build a new facility at the east edge of town to include both an 80-tph steel feed mill operated by Nutrition Services plus a 1.26-million-bushel all-steel elevator operated by Dearwester Services. 

The mill was constructed first, with groundbreaking in June 2014 and the first batch of feed produced that October. Construction on the elevator started shortly after that, and it was ready in time for the 2015 harvest.

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