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Grain silos

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Grain silos

Grain is being transferred from a bulk truck to a grain silo. The truck is tipping the grain into an auger, which is driven by the tractor’s power. In good conditions grain can be stored in a silo for several years. When the grain is needed it is removed through a chute in the bottom of the silo and augered into bulk trucks.

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Sue Zydenbos, Arable farming – Markets and processing, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/17602/grain-silos (accessed 20 June 2026).

Story by Sue Zydenbos, published 1 March 2009.