December 15, 2014

15/12/2014: 40,000-bushel grain bin collapses in US

Officials expect to recover about half of the grain after a 40,000-bushel grain bin collapsed at an elevator in northeastern South Dakota, USA, the Star Tribune reports.
 

http://www.startribune.com/nation/285815601.html

The bin at the Wheaton Dumont Co-op elevator in Britton developed a leak and collapsed on Sunday afternoon.

CEO Philip Deal said that the collapse also destroyed conveyors and other overhead equipment.

Wheaton Dumont has elevators in 10 communities and agronomy centers in four communities in South Dakota, North Dakota and Minnesota, USA.  



Read the article HERE.
 


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