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Article: Elevators bracing for new bigger-volume corn.
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- Agweek
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- February 13, 2007
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Byline: Mikkel Pates
Feb. 13--REYNOLDS, N.D. -- Paul Coppin and his friends are bracing for Big Corn.
The manager of Reynolds United Co-op will shepherd his elevator's addition of another 750,000 bushels of storage this spring.
The twin, 375,000-bushel steel Chief bins will represent a 38 percent increase in storage from its current 2 million bushel storage -- a $1.5 million investment for this co-op of 350 members, which trades in a 30-mile radius.
"It's going to be done primarily because of corn (increases) in this area," Coppin says during a subzero February walk around the north side of his south bin complex in town where new ...