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Originally Posted by bomberjet
It's just not financially feasible to run grain elevators like they did 100 years ago, unfortunately. The elevator at Meadows, Mb (my families roots for the last almost century) was just torn down about a month ago. Sad days...
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I agree, the old wooden elevators were built when wheat was running at 15 bu/acre and trucks could only carry about 300 bushels.
Now wheat is running over 70 bu/acre and pretty much every farmer has a B train sitting in the yard so the little elevators cannot even unload the trucks of today.