Spilling the beans

Published 12:00 am Thursday, October 5, 2000

Employees of Northern Country Co-op in Brownsdale work to clean up 6,000 bushels of soybeans that spilled when a storage bin ruptured and collapsed at about 4 p.

Thursday, October 05, 2000

Employees of Northern Country Co-op in Brownsdale work to clean up 6,000 bushels of soybeans that spilled when a storage bin ruptured and collapsed at about 4 p.m. Wednesday. The bin, in background, held 180 tons of beans. No one was injured in the incident, but another storage bin was severely dented, background. Co-op location manager Jeff Irvin said the cause of the collapse is unknown, but he expects most of the beans will be salvaged.

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