Large Corn harvest means storage space at a premium

ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) Picking corn is one thing. Finding a place to put it is another. And the prediction of a record corn crop in South Dakota means storage is needed.

Spink County Extension agent Mark Rosenberg says storage is an issue. He says farmers must either get their crop to a grain elevator or have somewhere to store it.

The most recent prediction puts South Dakota's 2007 corn production at 556 million bushels, a record.

Neither Rosenberg nor Gary Erickson, the Brown County Extension agent, have heard of any area elevators that have stopped taking grain.

Erickson says there's much more on-farm storage than in the past.

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