Ely’s grain elevator in Guide Rock, Nebraska, is shown on Oct. 10, 2025. The elevator has a capacity of over 1 million bushels across 15 bins, two flat storage buildings and a new temporary bunker.

For more than a century and a half, grain elevators have played a critical role in the fall harvest. Before elevators arrived on the scene, farmers scooped shelled corn or other grain into sacks, ...

FINLEY, N.D. -- David Fiebiger loves his job and hopes to do it a long time. "This a good fit for me and my family. This is what I want to do and where I want to be," says Fiebiger, the 33-year-old ...

The city has issued a demolition permit for a portion of the unused and dilapidated grain elevators that tower over Fort Worth’s Worth Heights neighborhood at Alice Street. Another four demolition ...

Once iconic features of the prairie landscape, wooden grain elevators have been vanishing over the past few decades, many lost to fire or demolished due to safety risks. One of the next to go is in ...

HANCOCK COUNTY — Mike Merlau has fond memories of the grain elevator in the community of Gem during the time his family ran it from 1985 to 2011. In many of those years, the property maintained its ...

NORD keeps the grain industry moving with safe, reliable, and efficient solutions to power bucket elevators, conveyors, feeders, slide gates, and more. The right-angled version of NORD’s MAXXDRIVE ...

Topflight, a farmer-owned grain cooperative, owns 18 elevators in the region. This year the co-op expects to take in about 19 million bushels of corn and 4.6 million bushels of soybeans. All that ...

HENDERSON, Ky. − Henderson County farmers for years have longed for a second major grain buyer here to which they could market their corn and soybeans. Having another sizable grain elevator competing ...