Aurora Co-op Murphy receiving facility ready for harvest

By Ron Burtz on Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Hoop building boasts 2 million bushel capacity

  • The new hoop building grain receiving facility at Murphy constructed this summer by Aurora Coop has a capacity of two million bushes and will be used to store soybeans from the fall harvest this year. Below, the pit and leg can unload trucks at a rate of 30,000 bushels per hour.
    The new hoop building grain receiving facility at Murphy constructed this summer by Aurora Coop has a capacity of two million bushes and will be used to store soybeans from the fall harvest this year. Below, the pit and leg can unload trucks at a rate of 30,000 bushels per hour.
    Visitors to Aurora Cooperative’s open house last week for its new grain receiving facility at the tiny unincorporated community of Murphy, a few miles west of Aurora, were no doubt awed by the size of the place. The new two million bushel capacity concrete and steel hoop structure constructed this past summer by Macon Construction of Bradford, appears big enough to host several basketball gam...

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