Harvest insights
On a tour of wheat producing areas of southwestern Oklahoma last week, the folks at the Walters Co-op Elevator Association gave me perhaps the best glimpse of how wheat gets delivered and shipped on down the line for ultimate consumption by consumers. Here are pictures:
Chris Abbott waits while his truck is weighed at the Walters elevator. Trucks are weighed before and after their grain is dumped to get an accurate assessment of how much wheat is delivered.
The grain is dumped from the truck through vents in the floor of the elevator, from where it is carried by a conveyor belt to the top of the bin and dropped in.
A worker sweeps in leftover grain from the previous delivery into the vents before the next truckload arrives.
Wheat is loaded into another semi-trailer at the Ahpeatone elevator, from where it will be trucked down to a grain terminal near Fort Worth, Texas.
Walters co-op manager Jerry Krasser and his crew work until well after midnight most nights during the harvest, then start it all over in the morning. But it’s all over in a couple of weeks.
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