December brought announcement of plans for two additional shuttle loading elevators to be built in this area.

Cooperative Producers, the operator of the Ruskin elevator and other businesses in this area including convenience stores in Superior and Nelson said it will build at 5-million-bushel grain facility along Highway 14 east of Harvard. The site of the new grain handling facility is served by a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad mainline. The location is one mile north of the Highways 6 and 14 north junction in Clay County.

The Clay County News reported last week, the facility will...