Big Elevator Gets Bigger: OHIO COOPERATIVE ADDS STORAGE, HANDLING CAPACITY OVER TWO YEARS

摘要

Weighing in at 8.77 million bushels of storage capacity, Blanchard Valley Farmers Cooperative's terminal elevator at Fostoria, OH (419-435-4763), is one of the very largest grain facilities in the State of Ohio. And it's getting bigger...and faster. Over a two-year period in 2010-11, Blanchard Valley added two new receiving pits, a 30,000-bph leg, several similarly-sized enclosed belt conveyors, a new 730,245-bushel steel tank, and new scalehouse and probe. That last item will allow the facility to reroute truck traffic, speeding up the lines and moving most of the grain trucks waiting to dump off of Fourth Street, which runs along the south side of the elevator.