Grain Elevator 2
Grain Elevator 2 : As grain is emptied from bins, tanks and silos it is conveyed, blended and weighted into trucks, railroad cars or barges, and shipped to grain wholesalers, exporters and/or local end-users, such as flour mills, breweries and ethanol or alcohol distilleries. Usage and definitions: Saskatchewan Wheat Pool No. 7, Thunder Bay, Ontario. In Australian English, the term "grain elevator" is reserved for elevator towers, while a receival and storage building or complex is distinguished by the formal term receival point or, more commonly, as a "wheat bin". Large-scale grain receival, storage and logistics operations are known in Australia as bulk handling. In Canada, the term "grain elevator" is used to refer to a place where farmers sell grain into the global grain distribution system, and/or a place where the grain is moved into rail cars or ocean-going ships for transport. Specifically there are several types of grain elevators under Canadian law, defined in the Canadian Grain Act, Section 2. Primary elevators (called "country elevators" before 1971) receive grain directly from producers for storage, or forwarding, or both. Process elevators (called "mill elevators" before 1971) receive and store grain for direct manufacture or processing into other products. Terminal elevators receive grain on or after official inspection and weighing and clean, store, and treat grain before moving it forward. Transfer elevators (including "Eastern elevators" from the pre-1971 classification) transfer grain that has been officially inspected and weighed at another elevator. In the Eastern Division, transfer elevators also receive, clean, and store eastern or foreign grain
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