By Road, Rail or River: We Deliver In western Minnesota, a field of soybeans stands golden in the autumn sun, ripe and ready for the combine’s approach. Ten thousand miles away — on the other side of the globe — a Chinese customer waits, eager for high-quality bushels to feed his processing plant and, ultimately, the hungry people of his growing nation The challenge: Transporting those soybeans from Minnesota to China. At CHS, we’ve long realized that helping producers raise the best crops in the world or operating the most efficient petroleum refiner-ies means little if you can’t deliver to customers what they want, when they want it — and do that efficiently and cost-effectively. As a Minnesota-based company, we watched in shock 15 months ago as an interstate highway bridge in our metropolitan area — a span many of us took for granted — collapsed and tumbled into the Mississippi River, taking 13 lives and altering thousands more. While experts continue to deduce an exact cause, it was a sobering reminder of the critical need to invest in and maintain solid infrastructure for the safety, security and economic well-being of our citizens. CHS relies on our nation’s waterways, highways and railways, as well as our system’s pipelines; grain, crop nutrients and refined fuels terminals; and other infrastructure to keep inputs moving to producers, energy moving to communities, and grain and related products moving to markets at home and around the world. The CHS trans-portation group is dedicated to the needs of our customers across the United States. Over the past decade, we’ve invested more than $2.1 billion in projects to ensure that our infrastructure is keep-ing up with customers’ needs. The CHS board of directors and our govern-mental affairs staff work diligently to ensure our nation’s elected officials and regulators recognize that a safe and secure transportation infrastruc-ture is an essential foundation of a sound, competitive economy. One important example is our unwavering support for repair and expansion of the lock-and-dam system on the Mississippi and other rivers so vital to moving crop nutrients to farms and grain to markets. In this issue of C , you’ll learn more about how CHS connects producers to consumers around the world via railroads, rivers and highways, plus more on our efforts to improve and ensure those vital links to market remain strong. It’s our way of making sure we’re meeting customer needs, whether they’re expecting fuel deliveries at their local businesses or waiting for soybeans on the other side of the world. CHS is committed to delivering what you need. John Johnson President and CEO CHS “We’ve invested more than $2.1 billion in our infrastructure.” Your CHS Connection 5
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By Road, Rail or River: We Deliver
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