Hampton CVA corn cleaning plant nears full capacity

Plant expected to provide premium pricing for local  corn growers

The new corn cleaning plant built by CVA along Highway 34 in Hampton is nearly complete and will soon be up to full capacity, cleaning up to 1,500 bushels of corn per hour.
The new corn cleaning plant built by CVA along Highway 34 in Hampton is nearly complete and will soon be up to full capacity, cleaning up to 1,500 bushels of corn per hour.

More than 15 months after breaking ground along Highway 34 in Hampton, the new CVA corn cleaning plant is officially up and running. Dale Broekemeier, CVA’s director of value-added grains and a former resident of Hampton and Aurora, stated that the facility began cleaning corn around March 1 and is expected to reach full capacity by April 1. Although the plant is about 99 percent complete, Broekem…