CHICAGO –– A grain silo imploded and set the BioUrja Group’s ethanol plant in central Illinois on fire, sending two employees to the hospital and forcing the closure of the facility, a company executive said on Thursday. The incident happened …
The odds of living were against Roger Bates when he fell into a grain bin on Jan. 31. The 78-year-old Rockton resident sank neck-deep into 35,000 bushels of corn while trying to break up spoiled clumps of material that would …
When Josh Blankenship reported for work the morning of Dec. 13 at MFA Agri Services in Advance, he had no idea that his life would be forever altered. It was about 9 a.m., and Blankenship and his longtime friend, J.D. …