Protect and Maintain your Equipment
Mar 20, 2025
| Premier Co-op
Planting season is one of the busiest times of the year, and ensuring your equipment is well-maintained and protected can help prevent costly breakdowns. Preparing now by using high-quality lubricants and grease, performing regular oil analyses, and enrolling in the Cenex Total P...
Spring 2025 Energy Market Update
Mar 18, 2025
| Premier Co-op
Over the past few weeks, crude oil prices have seen a welcome decline. However, recent geopolitical events—including airstrikes on the Houthis in Yemen, renewed conflict in Gaza, and a weaker dollar driving crude demand—have led to price stabilization for now.
Spring 2025 Fertilizer Market Update
Mar 18, 2025
| Premier Co-op
The fertilizer industry buzz continues to revolve around tariffs, what they will look like, when they will be put in place, if at all, and how it impacts pricing of those commodities going forward. For now, tariffs are messy as there are more questions than answers. Outside of th...
The Benefits of Creep Feed in Today's Market
Mar 03, 2025
| Premier Co-op
We’ve all noticed the surge in cattle market prices. Calves are now worth more than ever. In this lucrative market, investing a bit more in technologies that enhance the profitability of your calves makes even more sense.
Approaching Planting Season
Mar 03, 2025
| Premier Co-op
Planting season is quickly approaching! If you have not met with your Premier Cooperative agronomist to get your 2025 crop plan together, now would be an excellent time. We are working on getting growers’ crop plans done, and making sure all our growers’ needs will be...
From the Manager's Desk
Mar 03, 2025
| Premier Co-op
With spring just around the corner, your cooperative is gearing up for another one of our seasonal rushes… spring planting season. Not only will we see our total employee count peak for the year, but nearly every asset in the company will be in use. While many businesses h...
Prepare for Plant '25. Reflect, Adjust and Plan
Feb 05, 2025
| Premier Co-op
As we head through February, it’s important to reflect on last year's challenges and adjust our plans for this year.
January Energy News
Feb 05, 2025
| Premier Co-op
I’m calling winter over. Stick a fork in it. It’s done. Now that it’s behind us, that wasn’t so bad, was it? The lack of snow most of the winter made it easier to deliver propane to our customers and cut down on slip, trip and fall injuries. Other than the...
January Energy News
Feb 05, 2025
| Premier Co-op
Well, we’re finally on the downhill side of winter. In my opinion, we’ve got it pretty good in southern Wisconsin as we normally only see three months of weather that can be brutally cold and that comes in streaks. If you think back to late November when we started se...
From the Manager's Desk
Feb 05, 2025
| Premier Co-op
On January 15th, Premier Cooperative held its 132nd annual meeting at WI Riverside Resort in Spring Green, WI. As part of the financial report, Premier CFO Andy Jones reported your cooperative had a very strong year with gross sales of $275 million and local net earnings of $16.7...