Propane
Propane Department
Propane - Serving your Community with Integrity & Excellence. Farmers Cooperative Association wants to earn your propane business. Farmers Cooperative Association offers propane for farm, residential, and commercial usage. We have tank lease programs to suit each customers needs. Our customer's safety is the number one concern at Farmers Cooperative Association. Explore this site further to see what Farmers Cooperative Association has to offer you as a propane customer.
Farmers Cooperative Association Max Price Contract
This winter, you can take the guesswork out of your monthly propane payment. It's easy with our Max Price Contract. Your monthly propane bill is equal all year long which reduces your expense in the winter. Call 507-223-7241 in the Canby area and 507-872-6182 in the Minneota area or send an email to connect@fca-net.com to ask for the FCA's Max Contract Price. You'll be glad you did.
PROPANE PRODUCTS & SERVICES PROPANE LOCATIONS
• Max Price Contract FCA Canby
• Propane 1204 St. Olaf Ave N
• Propane tanks - all sizes to lease Canby, MN 56220
• Competitively priced 507-223-7241
• Convenient delivery routes
• Will Call and/or Regularly scheduled FCA Minneota
delivery options 301 First St on HWY 68
Minneota, MN 56264
507-872-6182
Jon Starkenburg - Certified Energy Specialist
Jon is here to help you get the products you need and want. He will help you with contracting your diesel, gasoline and propane (LP) for the farming season. Jon also sells Cenex brand lubricants and grease and lube filters for all makes and models of equipment. You may reach Jon by calling his cell phone: 507-828-0164.
Out of Gas Policy
We are in the bussiness to supply you with dependable service and a safe enviroment for our customers and employees. We realize that there are times, which you may run out of gas unexpectedly. This can create an unsafe enviroment for you and our propane drivers.
If you experience a situation where you run out of propane, you should:
- Close the service valve on the propane storage tank.
- Shut off all appliance valves.
- Call your propane supplier (Farmers Cooperative Association) immediately.
It is important that you are present at the building site with the propane system in, so that we can do a leak check of the whole system and put the system back into service. When propane delivery is to be made and no one is present, or if we cannot enter the building or if previous arrangements haven't been made, we will not fill the tank and there will be an extra charge for a second trip as explained below. The driver will leave an "Out of Gas Tag" and you will be instructed to call us.
The following is a list of charges for an "Out of Gas" situation:
Customers on scheduled deliveries..............................................NO Charge
Customers on Will Call or C.O.D. accounts:
Third time "Out of Gas" .....................................................................propane tank will be removed
After normal business hours or weekends...................................$100 delivery service fee - plus cost of propane
Pressure Testing & System Checks...............................................$25.00
The above fees do not include charges for repairs & time for an out-of-gas system pressure and leak test. See "Pressure Testing and System Checks" for more information.
Pressure Testing and System Checks
Accidents can result from the failure to perform complete system pressure tests from the propane tank to the system pilot orfices. Farmers Cooperative Association must verify the integrity of the customer's propane gas system with a pressure test and leak check as defined by NPGA Technical Assistance Bulletin T403, and document the results. The following situations call for a system check:
- New System or New Customer
- Occupancy Change
- System Interruption (making repairs or modifications, changing regulators, turning off the gas, ect.) This includes any "Out of Gas" situations.
- Suspected Leak
The following section from the National Fuel Gas Code describes the procedures to be followed by any qualified person servicing a system for gas utilization:
4.2 System and Equipment Leakage Test
4.2.1 Before Turning Gas On. Before gas is introduced into ta system of new gas piping, or back into an existing
system after being shut off, the entire system shall be inspected to determine that there are no open
fittings or ends and that all manual valves on equipment are closed and all unused outlets are closed
and plugged or capped.
4.2.2 Test for Leakage. Immediately after turning on the gas, the piping system shall be tested to ascertain that
no gas is escaping. If leakage is indicated, the gas supply shall be shut off until necessary repairs
have been made.
4.2.3 Placing Equipment in Operation. Gas utilization equipment shall be permitted to be placed in operation
after the piping system has been tested and determined to be free of leakage and purged in accordance
with 4.3.2.
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