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Feasibility of northeast Md. grain terminal being reviewed

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1.01.2008

By STEPHANIE JORDAN
Associate Editor

NORTH EAST, Md. — A feasibility study to determine the economics and viability of a grain terminal in the Cecil-Harford county area has been completed and is being circulated for review.
Joanne Richart-Young, agriculture coordinator for the Cecil County Office of Economic Development, said the report will be talked about at a meeting in early January by a committee, which is made up of farmers and local and state Farm Bureau members.
“We hope to discuss and review the report” during that meeting, she said.
The idea behind such a grain terminal was to help those soybean farmers who have not been able to ship from the area since the closing of the Archer Daniels Midland Port of Baltimore facility in 2001.
Those area farmers have had to travel further to sell their beans, either to Salisbury, Md., or Bethlehem, Pa., and gas prices have decreased farmers’ profits.
As proposed, the terminal would serve as a place to export soybeans and have a storage facility to house about 100,000 bushels of beans.
Committee members have received a copy of the feasibility report from the consultant and are looking at its findings before the January meeting.
After discussing the findings of the report, Richart-Young said the committee will determine the next move.