grain elevator
noun
: a building for elevating, storing, discharging, and sometimes processing grain
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Farmers need to transport a harvested crop from the field to a grain elevator or processing plant, typically on public roads.
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Richard Bishop, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Burgum is an ultra-wealthy software industry entrepreneur who grew up in a small North Dakota farming community working at his family’s grain elevator.
—Matthew Brown, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
Silos and grain elevators loom over flat prairies at the Archer Daniels Midland processing facility in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
—Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 10 Jan. 2025
Witty described Thompson as an Iowa native, who worked farm jobs as a kid, was raised in the same farmhouse as his mother and whose father spent more than 40 years unloading trucks at grain elevators.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2024
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Richard Bishop, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
Burgum is an ultra-wealthy software industry entrepreneur who grew up in a small North Dakota farming community working at his family’s grain elevator.
—Matthew Brown, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
Silos and grain elevators loom over flat prairies at the Archer Daniels Midland processing facility in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
—Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 10 Jan. 2025
Witty described Thompson as an Iowa native, who worked farm jobs as a kid, was raised in the same farmhouse as his mother and whose father spent more than 40 years unloading trucks at grain elevators.
—Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2024
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“Grain elevator.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grain%20elevator. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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