A driver unloads a truck load of spring wheat into one of the grain pits at the Nekoma facility. Each dump pit is rated to hold 20,000 bushels per hour, allowing trucks to get in and drop off their commodities in a very timely manner. Photo by Nick Vorlage.
Photo by Nick Vorlage.
Operations Assistant Chase Rhode checks the quality of one of the hundreds of wheat samples the facility receives. The process is integral due to the tight parameters of the milling industry. Photo by Nick Vorlage.
Operations Assistant Chris Arens supervises the dump pits. The large screen to his left gives a real-time display of what trucks are coming in and what is being dumped. Color coding on the screen further assists in keeping track of commodities as they are processed through the facility. Photo by Nick Vorlage.
North Prairie Ag celebrating 99 years of service and showing no signs of slowing down
As one cruises North Dakota Highway 1 in Cavalier County flying past fields of wheat, canola, soy and sunflowers, they will eventually drive past the small town of Nekoma, which is discernible from the highway for two large structures. One is the Stanley R. Mickelsen Safeguard Complex, a relic of Cold War America,…