Jack the giant killer was right to believe the beans were magic. Enchanted beans are no longer a fairy tale proposition for agriculture. Thumb-sized plastic beans, packed with a world of sensor ...

Four years ago, the crew at Tom Farms could run their combines for only a half day before they’d have to quit to let the 1,200-bu.-per-hour dryer catch up. Now the farm’s 2.25 million bushels of ...

June storms caused $100 million in damage to grain bins across the region, leaving farmers scrambling to rebuild storage before harvest. The June storms and tornadoes that swept through North Dakota ...

On a crisp, fall evening, the sun was just setting. The harvest was in full swing. The corn was coming off at 19 percent moisture. The grain bins were filling fast. The wet bin was full, and the dryer ...

ASSUMPTION, Ill. (AP) — Manufacturers of grain-storage bins in which more than two dozen people died last year believe the number of accidents will drop off this year because of changes in the ...

At least 83 people were injured — sometimes fatally — working in grain bins, livestock waste handling facilities, cotton module builders and other confined spaces last year, a nearly 41% increase over ...

The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has identified the grain handling industry as extremely hazardous. Being trapped in grain is the most common type of accident that occurs.

A 94-year-old man died in a grain bin incident in Iowa on Monday, officials said. The Fremont County Sheriff's office said Robert Wayne Smith was unloading soybeans in Tabor, Iowa while running a ...

A Tennessee man was rescued from a grain bin after he became 90% engulfed in corn kernels and crews raced to free him, firefighters said. In a Facebook post, the Ethridge Fire Department said that ...

Record crop supplies are being met with expanding storage capacity, but an unknown remains for 2026, Ken Eriksen writes.

FARGO, N.D. — Steve Johnson farms about 8,000 acres three miles east of Page, and his son is the fifth generation to tend to the land. Before storms that pushed through the region on June 20 and 21, ...