Landus Cooperative has partnered with several companies through a new type of agreement.

CEO Matt Carstens tells Raccoon Valley Radio they have agreements with three agricultural companies, including Minnesota-based NuWay-K&H Cooperative, Wellsburg-based Snittjer Grain and State Center-based Mid State Milling. Carstens says these companies have signed optimization agreements with Landus, which allows each business to continue to operate independently without having to go through an official merger process, like what West Central Cooperative and Farmers Cooperative did over five years ago to create Landus.

“So this is a way that kind of slows that race to the altar and gives us the time to kind of get to know each other, make sure the visions are the same, work out some of those differences through a natural, painless process. That’s the fundamental difference with optimization is that we’re not merging. Then when we have those like-minded visions and everything is really synced up, we can take the last step if that’s necessary to bring the organizations together.”

NuWay-K&H Cooperative has partnered with Landus for its agronomy services, Snittjer joined for grain services, while Mid State Milling brings its feed and grain services to Landus.