2023 Fall Farm Outlook Lincoln Daily News Oct 2023 Page 31 Johnson Siding elevator, a Logan County Topflight Grain Cooperative location, gives a step-by-step process of a day at a grain elevator. Johnson Siding is in east Logan County. When a semi or grain truck is brought in full of corn or soybeans (also known as commodity), they are weighed, probed, and tested for moisture and other grade factors. The purpose of weighing the truck is so that the weights can be converted into bushels. Sometimes there will be long lines at elevators and there are many factors that play into this. The number of farmers hauling in at the same time; what the grades are; the type of commodity they are hauling; and how many dumb sites or “pits” are at the location. Continued --
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