Agricultural Products

CSX serves grain elevators, feed mills, grain processing facilities, bakeries, ethanol plants and soft drink production facilities—helping to provide you with safe, cost-effective and reliable service.

Agricultural products include grain, flour, oils, sweeteners and ethanol.

Updates

  • The 90-car Express Load incentive of $125 per car for elevators will expire on Sept. 30, 2012. Effective Oct 1, 2012 CSX will offer an Express Load incentive at a level of $75 per car, equal to our 90-car Express Unload program for feed mill receivers. All customers currently participating in the 90-car Grain Express program will receive a reissued contract shortly for review and signature. Learn more about Grain Express.

  • CSX announces the upgrade of Murphy-Brown’s Rose Hill, N.C., Feed Mill to a 90-car receiver of unit trains. Also in North Carolina, Prestage Farms has completed the 90-car upgrade at their Turkey, N.C., facility. There are now 24 feed and export facilities located on CSX or a connecting short line that can receive 90-car trains. See the list of certified 90-car facilities.

  • Gavilon’s elevator in Mauzy, Ind., has completed construction to enable shipment of 90-car trains. The Mauzy facility will participate in the CSX Express program, loading an entire 90-car unit train within 15 hours. CSX has access to 43 elevators that can load 90-car trains.

  • Total Grain Marketing is in the process of converting its Casey, Ill., elevator to enable shipment of 90-car trains and will be an Express loader. Casey should be ready to ship 90s by late fall. ADM is also converting its Hoopeston, Ill., elevator to a 90-car Express shipper. Hoopeston should be ready by harvest 2010. Hoopeston will join ADM’s facilities in Beech Grove, Ind.; Chillicothe, Ohio; Oakland, Ill.; Webberville, Mich.; and Grand Ledge, Mich. as 90-car shippers on the CSX network.