Five Star Cooperative burned and replaced its wooden Scarville, IA, grain elevator thanks to strong support from local producers.Two new 100-foot-tall steel bins, a state-of-the-art grain dryer and a shiny new 15,000-bushel/hour grain elevator leg stand high above where Five Star Co-op's old wooden elevator once stood. The former 150,000-bushel soybean handling facility in Scarville, IA, was open and staffed only during harvest season and employees filled the nearly dozen small "government" bins using a grain auger.
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