$40M Grain Terminal Opens in South Dakota

September 20, 2017

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$40M Grain Terminal Opens in South Dakota
The Dakota Plains Ag Center LLC grain terminal in Yankton, SD under construction. Image courtesy of Dakota Plains Ag Center LLC

A ceremony was held to mark the opening of Dakota Plains Ag Center LLC’s new, $40 million grain terminal in Yankton, SD on Sept. 7, completing a 17-month period of planning and construction, the West Fargo Pioneer reported Monday.

The site contains six silos with a combined storage capacity of 1.2 million bushels of grain, a loading an unloading area with three truck dump, and a 9600-sq-ft shop area, coverage by the Yankton Press & Dakotan said. About 5 million additional bushels of grain can be stored on the ground at the site’s two concrete pads.

“Our long-term goal within year five is to handle at least 25 million bushels annually,” the facility’s general manager, Matt Winsand, told the Pioneer.

Grain storage and handling equipment manufacturer GSI posted on social media that some of its equipment was in use at the new facility, including its GSI InterSystems crop nutrient material handling technology used for dry fertilizer and other nutrients for dry crops.

Located near a railroad line in Napa Junction, the facility’s location offers a strategic advantage to furthering the area’s exportation of grain.

“They can create a 110-car train all at once and then ship it all the way to the West Coast without removing, adding, subtracting cars along the way. So, they’re more efficient,” said South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard at the opening ceremony, the Pioneer reported.

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