Vision:

 To be an integrated agronomy, energy, grain marketing system innovatively linking Prairie Lakes Coop resources to customers

Mission:

At Prairie Lakes Coop, our mission is to grow profitability and member-owner value.

Our Commitment:

We are committed to the long-term success of our member owners.  We create relationships and coordinate resources that allow customers to increase yields and take advantage of market opportunities to achieve greater profitability.

Our Values

At Prairie Lakes Coop, we value:
• Our relationship with CHS inc.
• Our products and services provided to our member-owners at our local operations
• our people and their innovative spirit
• our tradition of partnership and shared success
• building lasting and rewarding customer relationships
• being responsible stewards of our communities
• managing our business with the highest integrity.

What we are.

Prairie Lakes Coop (prairielakescoop.com), a CHS Service Center, provides products and services in the agronomic, energy and grain markets to meet the needs of its patrons. Together eight Prairie Lakes Coop locations, Cyrus, Hoffman, Elrosa, Lowry, Long Prairie, Park Rapids, Glenwood, and Starbuck create relationships with customers in agronomic inputs, fuels, and grain marketing.

Our History.

Today, Prairie Lakes Coop continues to be rich with the commitment to the cooperative system. In 1999, Farmers Union Oil and Midwest Consolidated (pervious merger of the Starbuck Creamery and Cyrus Farmers Elevator) combined, forming Prairie Lakes Coop, with locations in Glenwood, Starbuck and Cyrus. In September 2003, CHS- Lowry joined PLC, producing an avenue for the company to ship grain out of a state of the art 100+ rail car loading site in Glenwood.  At this time, Prairie Lakes Coop also became a regionalized business unit of CHS, Inc. Hoffman Co-operative Oil Association expanded the Prairie Lakes Coop trade territory to the north-east with addition of the Hoffman location in February 2004. The newest merger between two Prairie Lakes Coop business units in 2005 creates a cooperative with facilities in eight communities, Cyrus, Hoffman, Elrosa, Lowry, Long Prairie, Park Rapids, Glenwood, and Starbuck. Today patrons of Prairie Lakes Coop utilize products and services through agronomy, energy and grain divisions.