Cloverleaf Farms aerial view

Summary of Acres:

  • 4,500 acres are under production, with 90% irrigated with 36 pivots.
  • Average of 2,500 acres of seed corn.
  • Capable of planting up to 3,600 acres of seed corn.
  • Soybeans are not raised for seed.

Office Space in Elk Point, SD:

  • 30’x60 feet. 5 office rooms, 8 office work spaces available on first floor, 3 work spaces on the second level plus a large conference room
  • Basement storage. 600 sq. ft.
  • Office provides handicap parking and the office is handicap accessible

Warehouses:

  • Sales warehouse space 28’x60’. Outdoor pickup entry
  • Six warehouses at 12,400 sq. ft., 26,650 sq. ft, 10,000 sq. ft., 5700 sq. ft., 9000 sq. ft., and 1,600 sq. feet of connected warehouses = 65,000 sq ft total. Insulation is in all warehouse buildings.
  • 22 foot side walls- clear span buildings.
  • Four loading docks, one is enclosed.
  • We set up loads for shipping, but do not line up trucks for shipping or receiving.
  • Have handled all returns, able to re-bag.
  • Truck pit scale for weighing trucks

Seed house:

  • 2 shifts – 150,000 corn units from October through February.
  • Robotic stacker, Premier-Tech blending scale, Delta cleaner, Satake Color Sorter and Seed Treater. Ability to package seed in boxes and bags.
  • Bratney-designed seed house.

Sorting & Drying:

  • 2-18,000 bu. ear corn dyers, 36,000 capacity, Bratney design
  • Double pass reversing, natural gas, 6 pounds sq. inch pressure
  • Each dryer has total of 600 horsepower.
  • 3 – 16 lane A&K husking beds with 6 sorting tables, 24 people sorting, 4 per table
  • Can custom dry seed corn. Have dried up to 50,000 bu. of custom seed corn, sorting and drying for other seed corn operations

Production capability:

  • We farm all seed acres.
  • Planting/detasseling/harvest are done by Cloverleaf staff.
  • Can unload up to 12,000 bu. ear corn per day. Average 10,000 bu. a day

Bulk and Equipment Storage:

  • Eight buildings for farm equipment storage: 40×100 to 100 x120ft.
  • 428,000 bushel bulk storage: 67 individual bins of various sizes ranging from 1000 to 50,000 bu.
  • Cob Building is an enclosed structure

Pit Scale for weighing trucks was installed in 2021