Strong exports help CHS earnings jump 31%

Strong export demand helped the nation’s largest agricultural cooperative, CHS, achieve its highest revenue in nearly a decade.

CEO Jay Debertin tells Brownfield the 2021 fiscal year ended August 31st with earnings of $554 million, a 31 percent increase compared to the prior year and the best total net income since 2014.

“Led by our ag segment, and that kind of makes sense (when) you look at trade conditions around the world, trade really operated this last year at a much higher level and velocity.