Signs of a good harvest

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Taten Emigh (foreground), Sabrina Maxey and Alan Hammer play on slopes of the mountain of wheat piled on about a block-and-a-half of Danbury's downtown main street. "We're completely full. The elevators are stuffed. We're filled to capacity," said Tina Rae, a clerk at the Decatur Co-Op's Danbury branch. About 65,000-70,000 bushels of this summer's wheat harvest has been piled on Grandville Avenue, waiting to be transferred to bins and then into rail cars that will ship it and additional stored wheat and corn to mills in Oklahoma and Texas. "We've got rail cars coming," said branch manager Joe Weyeneth. "Our goal is to have it (the pile on main street) in bins in 30 days," before the community's annual "Danbury Doin's" summer celebration. Weyeneth was pleased with this year's harvest. "We had surprisingly good yields, even on continuous fields that got hailed," Weyeneth said. Harvest averaged 61-62 pounds per bushel, he said. The elevator is erecting two additional bins now, and Weyeneth expects tin to start going up in about two weeks. The new bins will add 300,000 bushels to the elevator's current 850,000-bushel bin capacity.

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