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Grain handling facility’s strong suit is speed

The opening of a Central Missouri train loading facility will handle grain faster and might improve the local price.  The new MFA Shuttle Loader near Hamilton, Missouri has an advantage in its logistics for taking in grain and loading it out.  Manager David Jones tells Brownfield that advantage is speed.

“They’ll be able to get in here and get out very quickly,” said Jones, at the facility’s grand opening Wednesday.  “Since we do have a 110-car rail capacity, being able to stay fluid during harvest is definitely key.”

Grain buyer Diana DeHart says the 3.5 million bushel facility will result in less grain remaining in the area, which until now, tended to depress the market.

“It’ll move a bunch of that grain out of the area,” DeHart told Brownfield Ag News during the event, “which is going to help improve the price.”

The facility is at the crossing of the four-lane east-west Highway 36 and the Union Pacific Railroad, which will take grain hauled in by farmers and other elevators via hopper semi-trucks and hauled away in the large unit trains, with each of 110 cars carrying 3,600 bushels apiece.

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