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Railroad grain terminal in Hope, Minnesota. A grain elevator or grain terminal is a facility designed to stockpile or store grain. In the grain trade, the term "grain elevator" also describes a tower containing a bucket elevator or a pneumatic conveyor, which scoops up grain from a lower level and deposits it in a silo or other storage facility.
Grain bins in Cashton, Wisconsin Grain elevators are composed of groups of grain silos, such as these at Port Giles, South Australia. Silos in Acatlán, Hidalgo, Mexico. A silo (from Ancient Greek σιρός (sirós) 'pit for holding grain') is a structure for storing bulk materials.
Grain bins at the railroad grain elevator site. When grain is harvested from a farm with a Combine harvester the combine typically loads the grain into a grain cart, which then unloads it into a grain hopper trailer, gravity wagon, or dump truck to be hauled to the local grain bin.
At grain elevators and other commercial handlers, off-farm storage capacity has increased by 40% to 11.9 billion bushels over the past 20 years, according to U.S. government data.
The Kyner grain elevator that towers over the main street in Wilson, Kansas, hasn’t been in service for well over half a century. Most passers by look at the silos and see a relic of the past ...
Grain entrapment, or grain engulfment, occurs when a person becomes submerged in grain and cannot get out without assistance. It most frequently occurs in grain bins and other storage facilities such as silos or grain elevators , or in grain transportation vehicles, but has also been known to occur around any large quantity of grain, even ...
Previous reporting by the Star-Telegram shows the silos and grain elevator date to 1924, when Fort Worth was considered the grain capital of the Southwest, according to an archivist at the Fort ...
Ancient Egyptian art depicting a worker filling a grain silo Ancient Roman grain. The grain trade is probably nearly as old as grain growing, going back the Neolithic Revolution (around 9,500 BCE). Wherever there is a scarcity of land (e.g. cities), people must bring in food from outside to sustain themselves, either by force or by trade.