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First bin at Goessel Mid-Kansas elevator filled with wheat
Wheat piles grow as Kansas elevators strain under a harvest surge. The new 200000 bushel steel bins at Goessel come as farmers, railroads, and trucks face shortages and delays. Northern fields begin cutting while the DeBruce blast lingers in memory. Storage space is scarce across the state.
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Oessel
Kan
Mid-Kansas Co-op
Goessel
Chuck Jones
Kansas
Agriculture
Dan Glickman
Moundridge
Isabel
Hutchinson
Wichita
Kansa
Reno
Kingman
Collingwood
Tom Theis
Kansas Association of Wheat Growers
Liberal
Cimarron
Ness City
Hays
Concordia
Junction City
Emporia
Garden City
Ulysses
Bill Frederick
Central Kansas Railway
Haysville
DeBruce
Charles Swayze
Farmers Co-op Equity Co
Barber County
Swayze
Co-Op
Bob Nattier
Nattier
State Grain Inspection Department
Collingwood Grain
U.S. Department of Agriculture