The manager of a grain terminal in Unity, Sask., hopes to have a temporary dryer on site soon after a fire knocked their main dryer out of commission.
Jason Skinner of North West Terminal said the fire on Oct. 11 was in a new dryer that was installed in January.
Grain drying services are at a premium during the cold and wet 2018 harvest, and North West Terminal’s high capacity grain dryer had been averaging three thousand bushels of wet, damp grain an hour.
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Skinner is hoping to have temporary drying capacity on site in 10 to 20 days.
The temporary dryer has only one-quarter of the capacity of the damaged dryer, but Skinner says “something is better than nothing” this year.
Unity is roughly 175 kilometres west of Saskatoon.
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