The oldest cooperative elevator in North Dakota will go down in history as the first in the United States to load an 8,500-foot unit train, reports AGWeek.
Farmers Elevator Co. of Honeyford, founded in 1905, on Monday, Nov. 1, 2021, loaded a 142-car train filled with 550,000 bushels of corn.
The corn, grown by farmers in a 50-mile radius of the tiny northeast North Dakota town, was bound for an Alberta grain company, where it was to be distributed to cattle feedlots.
The Honeyford grain elevator is the first entity south of the U.S.-Canadian border to load an 8,500-foot — 1.6 mile-long — unit train.
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