LCT is owned by CHS Primeland, Pacific Northwest Farmers Coop, and Uniontown Coop. LCT is a cooperative of 2,000+ grain growers who farm over 17,000 square miles in Palouse and Camas Prairie areas and deliver their grain to over 40 country elevators. That grain is then delivered to LCT terminals at the Ports of Lewiston and Clarkston throughout the year, where it is marketed to export companies and delivered to foreign and overseas buyers.
Grain shipments are the number one export leaving the Lower Granite Pool. Lewis-Clark Terminal owns the grain facility adjacent to the Port of Lewiston. LCT has a combined storage capacity of 10.0 million bushels.
Lewis-Clark Terminal
• 2019-2023 Annual average handled grain = 21,900,000 bu
• 10.0 million bushels of storage
• 90+ bins 120′ tall (8 bins at 250,000 bu, with 2 bins at 615,000 bu) 200′ tall legs
• 3 barge loading berths at 30,000 bu/hr (barge 240′ x 42′)
• 5 unload pits (3 at 15,000 bu/hour, 1 at 20,000 bu/hour, 1 at 8,000 bu/hour)
• Harvest unloading: 370+ trucks/day - 6,200 trucks/August - 22,000 trucks/annually
• Tri-State Grain Inspection on site (federally compliant grain inspection lab)
• Rail Loadout Facility added in 2019Barging
• 60% of Washington and Idaho wheat is shipped by barge
• 5 hours to load 3,600 ton (120,000 bu) barge = 120 truck loads
• 14′ depth river channel
• 13′ 6″ max barge depth
• 60 hours to Portland, OR/Vancouver, WA passing through 8 locks
• Barges have 1/3 less emissions than rail and 1/5 less emissions than trucks
Wheat
• 60% of the US wheat is handled on the Columbia/Snake River System
• 1/3 of Pacific Northwest Wheat exports come from the Snake River Terminals
• 90% of Pacific Northwest Wheat is exported
• Washington is #6 in wheat production
• Idaho is #1 in dry land wheat yields
• One bushel has approximately 1 million kernels = 70 loaves of bread
• Growers receive approximately 5 cents per loaf of bread sold in stores
• US Consumers use over 3 million bushels of wheat each day