• Boosts grain unloading speed by 30 percent with an additional high-speed receiving leg. • Adds a fifth grain receiving pit, boosting unloading speed and efficiency.

The expected wet grain and receiving capacity will increase from 10,000 bushels per hour to 50,000, and the drying capacity is expected to increase from 35,000 bushels a day to 200,000.

Officials said a structural failure caused the side of one silo-like receiving pit to blow out around 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, sending a sea of corn to the ground below.

The leg carries grain dumped from trucks into receiving pits, up in buckets, sometimes well over 100 feet before the grain gets distributed to the many different grain bins and storage facilities.

Demolition work begins Friday, March 8, 2024, on grain elevator infrastructure in Raymond. Farmers Cooperative of Prinsburg, Raymond and Clara City is building a new grain receiving facility and ...

Officials say a structural failure caused the side of one silo-like receiving pit to blow out around 4:30 a.m., sending a sea of corn to the ground below.

The Grand Forks facility can store 140,000 metric tons, or roughly 154,000 U.S. tons, can load up to 110 railcars serviced by BNSF Railway and has two truck-receiving pits and a grain dryer.

Additions will be installed directly south of the feed mill and will include a new 400,000-bushel grain bin, movement of an existing 20,000-bushel wet bin, a new 4,700-bushel-per-hour dryer, two ...

Damage to the Landus Cooperative grain elevator in Yetter, Iowa, is shown on Tuesday, March 1, 2022. Officials said a structural failure caused the side of one silo-like receiving pit to blow out ...