Kanza Cooperative Association serves farms, ranches, businesses and residents in Kansas.
We offer a wide range of products and services, including energy, feed, agronomy, and logistics. We also provide a market for our members’ grain.
Building up people, businesses and communities
Kanza Cooperative owes its long history and bright future to our forward-thinking approach. We are a generational business, meaning we’re not as concerned about the next quarter as we are the next quarter century.
Our focus on healthy, manageable growth allows us to increase our relevance with all those we serve, while remaining financially strong.
In addition, we strive to help our members succeed, clearing hurdles to make it easy to do business with us and give every reason for customers to come back for more.
We look to be an outstanding place for our employees to work, providing necessary tools and training to help them prosper and grow in their careers.
We reinvest in the rural communities we serve, with a resilient balance sheet to remain strong even in difficult times.
Our Beliefs
Commitment
Commitment to our customer owners and to the communities we have the good fortune to live and operate in. We stay true to our word of being a good steward for rural America.Service
Service the needs of our customers and employees first to help people develop and perform as highly as possible. We appreciate our customers and constantly strive to improve, knowing that within service comes success.Integrity
Integrity must be absolute. Without it, problems will exist on every front.Follow the Golden Rule
Follow the Golden Rule for others, treating them as we want to be treated. We put ourselves in others’ shoes to help us all connect better and understand more.
Many cooperatives now one community.
Over our history, we’ve experienced numerous mergers, bringing together cooperatives and communities to continue to strengthen our position in the market.
As we grow, however, we never lose sight of our commitment to the communities we serve. We reinvest locally, and we provide good jobs for the people who live here.
We’re also committed to supporting local organizations and causes through donations of money, time and expertise. We’re proud to call rural America home, and we look to demonstrate that pride whenever we can.
TIMELINE 2000s
2024
Farmers Cooperative Elevator Company of Garden Plain merger completed.
2016
Merges with Andale Farmers Cooperative, bringing together farm families from four Kansas counties: Pratt, Harvey, Stafford and Sedgwick.
2001
Name changed to Kanza Cooperative Association.
2000
Zenith Co-op merger completed, including the Stafford facilities.
TIMELINE 1900s
1991
Dillwyn Grain and Supply Co. acquired, including an elevator and grain storage facility in St. John.
Late 1980s
Grain storage facilities purchased and expanded at Byers and Antrim.
1981
A merger is completed with Pratt Equity Exchange‚ the first such transaction in the cooperative’s 65-year history.
1965
A tornado destroys the wooden Iuka Co-op office building, which is replaced with a brick building.
1961
A new 300,000-bushel concrete elevator is constructed.
1950s
Innovations in agriculture are embraced by supplying dry and liquid fertilizer, helping farmers double wheat production.
1946
A 100,000-bushel concrete elevator is built.
1930s
The Great Depression and Dust Bowl are weathered, and an addition to the elevator is added later in the decade.
1919
First grain elevator purchased in Iuka for roughly $3,100.
1915
A group of Pratt County farmers form Iuka Cooperative Exchange for that year’s wheat crop.
A history of service and strength.
The story of Kanza Cooperative isn’t just about our locations across Kansas. It’s about people. Generations of hard-working Kansas farmers and ranchers who decided more than 100 years ago that working together made them stronger.
Relationships with family farms and ranches makes Kanza what we are today and guides our path forward. We seek to create value beyond price, understanding the needs of our members and stepping up to deliver for them.
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