Ludlow Cooperative Elevator Company:

• Has served our customers and communities since 1904.
• Is a locally owned cooperative, owned by the farmers we serve.
• Serves as an essential link between the farmer and the agricultural needs of America and the world, helping to provide a safe abundant food and feed supply, and agricultural inputs for essential energy and industrial products, when and where they are needed.
• Provides essential grain storage, grain handling, and grain marketing services for those farmer customers.
• Provides safe, efficient, up-to-date facilities to meet those needs at seven locations.
• Maximizes transportation efficiencies for our customers.
• Provides feed and seed services to the farm and rural lifestyle communities.
• Is a vital part in the economies of Champaign, Ford, and Iroquois counties in Illinois .

On the afternoon of January 7th of 1904, eighty three farmers from the area around the small community of Ludlow, Illinois came together and pledged six thousand dollars to found a local farmer-owned grain elevator company to serve their agricultural needs and provide a grain marketing link between themselves and the world.

Ludlow Cooperative Elevator Company provided those needed facilities and services, has kept up with the changes and growth in agriculture, and has returned profits to its farmer owners. It continues to do so today and will into the future.

Today, Ludlow Cooperative has seven locations to serve our farmer owners in Illinois:  Ludlow, Purdueville, Del Rey, Paxton, Loda, Buckley & Clarence.