About Prairie Lakes Coop

Our Commitment.

We are committed to the long-term success of our member-owner operations.

We coordinate resources utilizing our local operations, the knowledge of our people and the capabilities of our CHS global network.

We create customized farm plans that will increase yields, take advantage of market opportunities, and manage risk so you can achieve greater profitability.

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.