From testing seed to evaluating soils, cooperatives do quite a bit more than just store grain. We recently talked with David Briggs, who is the CEO of WESTCO Cooperative in Alliance. He says ...

A pair of decaying concrete grain silos on a landmark Fort Collins farm are in the middle of a historic-preservation battle. The 100-year-old structures also are in the middle of Woodward Inc.’s new ...

MANHEIM – Part thrill ride and part educational tool, Kreider Farms Silo Observation Tower has been a hit since it opened on May 2. The tower, a converted silo, has become a focal point of the ...

In the early morning hours of Sept. 30, a farm owner noticed the smell of smoke coming from a 70-foot stave silo in the town of Byron, in rural Fond du Lac County, and called the fire department.

The imposing grain silo situated in the small Australian town of Coonalpyn has dominated the region’s rural landscape for over 50 years, but has never garnered much attention. That was, until the ...

CONCRETE, Wash. — Seattle has its Space Needle, George has The Gorge and Concrete has its ... silos. Soon, though, they could help bring tourists to the tiny Skagit County town. When Gwyenth Akers ...

Firefighters battled a blaze in a silo on an Ephrata Township farm on Friday. The fire, at 538 Springville Road, broke out inside a 60-foot, poured-concrete silo about 2:57 p.m. The silo was about 75 ...

The saga of two old farm silos on Woodward Inc.’s new corporate campus in northeast Fort Collins continues. Where it will end up probably won’t be known for months. It’s complicated, to say the least.

A longtime family business in Pennsylvania has been working around the clock to build new silos for the Tappan Zee Bridge project's floating concrete plants. Brett Shumaker, owner of Shumaker ...

Jun 28, 2020 Jun 28, 2020 Updated Feb 12, 2021 A recent exhibit at the Quad-City Arts Gallery in Rock Island had my name written all over it, as the saying goes. It featured 41 photographs by Ken ...