Last Wednesday, dignitaries cut the ribbon on Northern Country Coop’s new 100-foot-diameter grain storage bin in Lansing, MN, that is the first phase of a larger vision, reports the Austin Daily Herald.
The project will also include a receiving pit that will have a leg capable of moving 20,000 bushels per hour to the bin, which in turn will be able to hold approximately 750,000 total bushels.
When completed, it will hold close to half of the combined bin capacity of the existing facility, which is about 1.5 million bushels.
“This is the first phase in our grain expansion project for additional grain storage so that we can get away from the ground storage and expand into the future,” Northern Regional Manager Jeff Irvin told the Daily Herald. “We have it laid out so if we ever want to put a grain (rail) loop, we can if the market conditions ever warrant that. So we have a lot of options.”
