Scoular history

In 1898 Scoular took a partner named Dennis Bishop and the company changed its name to Scoular and Bishop Lumber and Grain.

Harlan had been in the grain business since starting his career with West Central Cooperative in 1956.

By 1967, however, Bob Scoular came to the conclusion that the business was sorely lacking in youthful energy and needed to expand in order to survive.

Vice-President Jim Clinton was a key lieutenant, as was Neal E. Harlan, whom they recruited to join Scoular in 1969.

A business administration graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1971, Fischer started out as a futures trader with Milton G. Waldbaum Company, a Nebraska egg producer.

In 1973 he joined Scoular as a grain trader.

Harlan became president and chief operating officer in 1983 and played an important role in Scoular's growth.

1990 Duane Fischer is named president.

In 1997 Scoular moved beyond the United States borders, established Scoular Canada in Calgary, and began trading barley, feed wheat, and oats in the western part of Canada.

In June 1998 it acquired the trading businesses of International Proteins Corporation.

2000 The Industrial Markets Division is formed.

Then, in 2004, Scoular added a new shuttle-train loading facility to Alpena as well as Fremont, Nebraska.

In 2005, Scoular acquired a bulk grain-handling terminal in Helena, Arkansas, a Mississippi River facility that transferred grain directly from trucks to two barge loading locations.