Premier Cooperative is an Illinois farmer owned cooperative providing agricultural commodities and energy products. We give the first step into the grain marketing channel. We offer outstanding service that is fast, efficient, and technologically advanced; delivered always with integrity. Our goal is to enhance the business of our farmer owners while supporting the communities in which we all live and work.

Premier Cooperative facilities, where grain initially enters the marketing channels, are maintained by full time millwright crews. The network of railroads and interstate highways serving our trade territory are indicative to the complete shipping capabilities of Premier Cooperative. The early Illinois Prairie settlers efforts to grow and market their crop, have been instrumental in making Premier Cooperative an important force in serving the world food economy as a farm cooperative with solid resources and modern facilities.                              

Premier Cooperative farmer owned grain elevator


 

1903

Savoy Grain Company is formed

  

1904

Ivesdale Co-op Grain Company is formed

   

1905

Sadorus Cooperative Elevator Company is formed

  

1911

Fisher Farmers Grain & Coal Company is formed

  

1916

Farmer Elevator of Jamaica is formed

    

1962

Rising Farmers Grain Company is formed

  

1967

Fisher Farmers Grain & Coal Company is reorganized as a cooperative

  

1981

Fisher Farmers Grain & Coal purchase Elliott Grain Company which included a bulk fuel business

  

Savoy Grain Company, Ivesdale Co-op Grain Company, and Sadorus Cooperative Grain Company consolidate to form Grand Prairie Coop, Inc

  

1982

Grand Prairie Coop, Inc purchases facilities in Philo, Sidney, Fulls Siding, and St. Joseph after the failure of Champaign County Grain Association

  

1984

Grand Prairie Coop, Inc purchases elevator facilities in Broadlands, Longview, and Block Station

  

1985

Fisher Farmers Grain & Coal purchases facilities in Thomasboro, Leverett, Gifford, Ellis, and Reilly after the failure of East Central Grain Company

   

1994

Grand Prairie Coop, Inc purchases the Galesville Elevator facility

  

1995

Fisher Farmers Grain & Coal Company purchases the Dillsburg Elevator facility

  

1996

Grand Prairie Coop, Inc partners with Unity Grain Company to form United Prairie LLC to expand the agronomy services provided by both companies

  

2009

Farmers Elevator Company of Jamaica merges with Grand Prairie Coop, Inc, adding facilities at Jamaica and Indianola

  

Fisher Farmers Grain & Coal and Grand Prairie Coop, Inc consolidate to form Premier Cooperative, Inc

  

2011

Rising Farmers Elevator Company merges with Premier Cooperative, Inc adding facilities at Rising, Bondville, and Mahomet

   

2017

Premier Cooperative, Inc purchases grain elevators at Royal, Collison, and Rossville from JBS United

  

2022

Premier Cooperative, Inc purchases the grain elevator in Farmer City from ADM

    

2023

Launch of Premier+ App

   

Purchase of Miller Oil Company in Cowden, IL