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Farmers turn to 500-foot plastic storage bags in wake of storm damage

Chad Wendel uses bags to store corn after it has been dried in his grain-handling facility that stands in the background. (Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor)NORTH DAKOTA (North Dakota Monitor) — When June storms demolished three grain bins that Dean Bjornson had planned to use to store much of this year’s crop, his reaction was to bag it instead He ordered…

Richland County Grain Bins Opened, Releasing 150,000 Bushels of Corn

Meyer estimates he will lose about 6,000 bushels of the corn.

FAIRMOUNT, N.D. (KFGO) – A vandal or vandals have hit a Richland County farm. The farmer, Mark Meyer says the damage is costly and a big mess. Mark Meyer says somebody opened the side taps of two-grain bins sometime Sunday night and released about 150,000 bushels of dried corn onto the ground at the farm located 6 miles west of…