June 26, 2008
By Alexis Hunt
KHQA - Quincy, IL
Here's an update to a story we first brought you last Tuesday. We told you about two massive soybean grain bins that came crashing down at the Ursa Farmer;s Co-op grain elevator in Warsaw early that morning. The collapse may have been caused by rushing river water, which wet the soybeans, causing them to expand and burst.
The manager of the elevator, Truman Phillips told us at that time, the elevator lost about 25 to 30 thousand bushels of bean. I checked in with Phillips Thursday. He told me, he managed to save about 20,000 bushels.
Now, it's a matter of getting water out of the elevator to prepare for the wheat harvest. While there, I couldn't help but notice a strong odor coming from the elevator, that's because the wet beans are starting to rot. Phillips says that problem will be taken care of soon.
"Yesterday (Wednesday), a guy came from just south of Quincy, he's got a way to use them, hopefully in the next day or two, we can get them cleaned up," Phillips said.
Phillips says in all, he lost about 300-thousand dollars worth of grain.
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