KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, US — It was a bumpy ride for the global grain industry in 2024. An already unstable geopolitical situation worsened with military conflicts expanding in Ukraine and the Middle East. Transporting grain efficiently was a challenge, in part because of those wars. And ...
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The annual event drew a crowd of 2,729, and there were 366 companies that exhibited products and services in the Expo Hall. Coming off the COVID-19 pandemic, attendance compares favorably with the last time GEAPS Exchange was held in Kansas City in 2017 when there was record attendance of...
With sorghum trading at a premium, Jacobs, who worked as a grain trader before turning his attention to his family farm full-time, expects to see an uptick in sorghum acres this year in the top sorghum-producing states of Kansas and Texas. “The demand is there, and the weather has ...
The Grain Elevator and Processing Society’s (GEAPS) Exchange is Feb. 22-25 at the Kansas City Convention Center in Kansas City, Missouri, US. It includes an extensive educational lineup, special events and latest innovations in the grain handling and storage industry as well as an expo. Fo...
United Farmers Cooperative operates in southeast Nebraska and northeast Kansas. We are a grain company that besides grain has agronomy, petroleum, and feed as our core business groups. We (and our 3 parent companies) have used temporary grain storagein differing degrees for a couple of generations...
Grain residues in nine commercial elevators in Kansas were sampled monthly for insects in grain residues during 1999 and 2000. Five locations per elevator were observed; the boot pit, dump pit, headhouse, rail area, and tunnel. When a grain residue was found, the quantity was estimated and ...
A looming strike by employees at two of Canada’s railway companies will devastate not only a local grain and hay shipping company and its employees, but also the wider economy, its president says. The Canadian National Railway (CN) and the Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) ...
United Farmers Cooperative operates in southeast Nebraska and northeast Kansas. We are a grain company that besides grain has agronomy, petroleum, and feed as our core business groups. We (and our 3 parent companies) have used temporary grain storagein differing degrees for a couple of ...
For a 2013 post, we visited the elevator at Bird City, Kan. to learn more about its provenance. Bird City (pop. 447) is in Cheyenne County, in the northwestern corner of Kansas. The county population is about 2,500. “It has been demonstrated that the curved headhouse was a Tillotson...