Corn stover remaining after harvest in fields around Odebolt soon can be used for producing a corn board, which can be used in products like skis and delivery pallets, at a facility being developed in Odebolt, the company's founder and CEO Lane Segerstrom told The Denison Free Press.

The for-profit company is early in the stages of breaking ground and building a complex that will produce 10 million square-feet of corn board for flat-board pallets for distribution and manufacturing centers.

The facility will be a mile and a half west of Odebolt on Highway 175. It rests on 40 acres and will be 50,000 square feet under roof in
multiple buildings.

"We are hoping this spring or summer to break ground," Segerstrom said.

He expects the project to be completed within 18 months.

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The radius for farmer contracts will stretch about 20 miles. Corn Board expects to need 50 tons of stover and could have contracts with up to 80 farmers.

"There was a group of farmers that really wanted us to come there and it seemed like it was fitting as I am from that area," said Segerstrom, an Ida Grove native. "It seemed like all the things were aligning."

Corn Board expects to have 35 employees, full-time.

The company has been around for 13 years and has a research-and-development facility in Texas.

The Odebolt facility will likely reach beyond Sac County into Crawford and Ida counties.

"We are pretty much in the central part of Crawford County," Segerstrom said.

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