Thayer
County Economic Development
Business
Development
Thayer County, is located in the center of the U.S. and has
easy access to Interstate 80, Interstate 70 in Kansas and U.S. Highway
81. Local businesses and manufacturers have a strong and skilled labor
force to choose employees from. We have low cost housing, low crime,
reasonable utilities, great quality of life and many other advantages
of doing business in the area.
Other major manufacturers are Reinke's Pivot
Irrigation and Trailer's in Deshler, MetalQuest
Unlimited in Hebron, and Metal-Tech
Partners in Bruning.
Wind Farm Project
A proposed 80 MW wind farm project is expected to cover 10,000 to 15,000 acres along the Monument Road between U.S. Highway 81 and Nebraska Highway 53. Three lines of approximately 40 turbines will stretch across the 8-9 mile path.
While local farmer Bob Marsh cleared land of corn not quite ready for harvesting, excavator Gary Hintz set about digging holes for guide wires that anchor a meteorological tower. Project organizer, Gary Aksamit, stood shaking his head in amazement as a once talked about dream was quickly becoming a reality last week. “I’m really excited about this,” he said. “We’ve been talking about this for quite some time.” The “we” Aksamit refers to is the Aeolus Energy LLC and a group of local land owners backing a wind farm Aksamit proposed in 2009. The meteorological tower is the kick-start to the wind project. It will measure the amount of wind present in the area indicating how much electricity can be generated by the wind farm. Data will be collected for a year or more.
“We’re in a very desirable situation because the met tower will give us some fall wind data as well as information from our windiest months in the spring,” Aksamit said late last month. Last week at the met tower site, he stressed Thayer County’s viability as a windy enough place to create electricity. “A wind farm will have a direct economic impact on the county, say in the way of a tuition program or compensation to help pay for parks and recreation, things like that,” he said.
The $40,000 196-foot met tower, is located four miles east of Highway 81 on the south side of Road Q, or more familiarly Monument Road. The proposed 80MW project will produce an estimated 250,000 MEGAWATTS of electricity every year each of those megawatts will have a green REC (Renewable Energy Certificate), these green REC's are what fossil fuel (coal plants) will need to offset their exposure to this pending EPA legislation.
Agriculture Improvements
Cargill
is moving ahead in expanding its grain-handling capabilities for Thayer
County producers by upgrading several grain storage bins and adding
a truck scale at the former Altra Nebraska LLC ethanol facility in Carleton,
NE. Cargill acquired the rights to the land and grain-handling assets
of the unfinished Altra site in November 2009 to enhance its capabilities
in receiving, weighing, handling and storing local crop producers' deliveries.
Cargill
officials anticipate the first phase of upgrades at the site will be
completed in time to accommodate harvest season deliveries this fall.
Cargill is pleased at the opportunity to expand our grain-handling capabilities
in a way that will directly benefit our customers throughout the year,
and particularly during the harvest.
The facility, located at 2182 Road 5600, is one-half mile from Cargill's existing Carleton grain complex and will be referred to as the Cargill-Carleton West elevator. Two upright bins being refurbished at the Carleton West site each have a storage capacity of nearly 500,000 bushels, and a flat-storage building adds another 400,000 bushel storage capacity.In addition, Cargill will use two grain dump sites at the facility to help alleviate bottlenecks during high delivery periods.
Cargill is exploring options for using other assets acquired as part of the site, with the needs of area producers foremost in mind. Regionally, Cargill AgHorizons-U.S. also operates grain handling facilities in Albion, Lincoln, O'Neil, and Ord, NE, along with Council Bluffs, Iowa. For more information, call 952-742-6910.
A major project for AGP Grain in Chester, NE was grain storage expansion, as it added a 1.4 million bushels storage facility, in 2009.
Bruning Grain and Feed Co. Inc. just completed building a 520,000 bushel bin bringing their total grain handling capacity to 3.6 million bushels. Incorporated in 1949, Bruning Grain and Feed is an independent elevator located in Southeast Nebraska. Bruning Grain & Feed has a full line of grain products and services including the addition in May 1995 of a soybean processing facility. Using a totally natural mechanical extrusion technique followed by expelling/pressing of oil has given soybeans a new value. In November of 2001, Bruning Grain & Feed added a commodity blending facility to meet customer demand for custom feed mixing. Bruning Grain & Feed strives to provide high quality and high service to our customers throughout the US and Mexico. Please check out Bruning Grain & Feed's products, process, research and prices.
Transportation
Centrally located, Thayer County provides convenient
access to the East and West Coasts, Canada and Mexico. Four-lane U.S.
Highway 81, north and south, bisects Thayer County with easy
access to most of the communities. Interstate 80, just
50 minutes to the north and Interstate 70, just 100 minutes
to the south are two of the busiest transportation routes in
the central U.S. The first class infrastructure and minimal
congestion give matchless speed to your company's markets.
The Union
Pacific Railway runs through the County, parrallel to Highway
4 and provides service at Davenport, Carleton, Belvidere, and Alexandria.
The UP provides sidings to Altra Inc. at Carleton, Cargill Inc. and Bruning
Grain and Feed in Belvidere.
Hebron Municipal Airport is located south of Hebron on Highway 136, near
the golf course.
2006
Thayer County, Nebraska Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy
To download, click on link 2006
CEDS. This
document is 207 pages. The links below will break down the document
into parts that might be easier for you to download. The most important
information is in chapter 1 with the other chapters as backup.
Table of Contents Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8
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