A new conditional-use permit passed by the Red Wing City Council on Monday will give Red Wing Grain an additional 1.3 million bushels of grain storage capacity, reports the Post Bulletin.
The expansion is just the latest addition for the company. With its downtown facility long landlocked, the company opened a new western location at Cannon Bottom Road in 2006 with a grain bin, then expanded that site with a bunker in 2011. Now, the company plans to add another grain bin at the site.
“Currently, there is over 600 million bushels of commercial grain elevator storage in Minnesota and another 2 billion bushels of grain storage space on-farm in Minnesota,” Bob Zelenka, executive director of the Minnesota Grain and Feed Association, Eagan, MN, told the Post Bulletin.
Most of the storage capacity is full, he added, mainly due to this fall’s crop yields and the Chinese tariffs.
