In addition to corn, Minneapolis offers an electronic contract for hard winter wheat, based on an index of 500 wheat elevators, which competes with Kansas City's contract; the exchange's signature hard spring wheat still relies on the old open-outcry system.
Mr. Glass, 70, seeking the best prices he can, trucks his wheat to the Burlington elevator about 45 miles from here.
Mr. Barber, 66, sitting at the counter a few feet away, said he shipped locally, taking his wheat to the grain elevator here in Denton, where it is picked up by the Central Montana and transferred down the line to Burlington Northern and its ultimate destination on the West Coast.
And those curious about the old industrial waterfront can paddle the Menomonee River to the Burnham Canal to see late-19th-century wheat silos and a grain elevator.
In the summer of 1998, when I was 17 and just out of high school, I worked at a grain elevator during the wheat harvest.
An example would be that of a grain elevator operator who buys wheat in the country and at the same time sells a futures contract for the same quantity of wheat.
One example is that of a grain-elevator operator who buys wheat in the country and at the same time sells a futures contract for the same quantity of wheat.
Almost every speaker at the commission hearing — wheat farmers, cotton growers and shippers, grain elevator owners, rice producers — expressed alarm at the wild price swings and escalating hedging costs.
The climax finds the tycoon trapped in a grain elevator, where he drowns in a cascade of wheat.
The museum presents a history of flour milling and industrial development along the river, and an eight-story elevator ride shows the various steps that turned wheat into flour.
Brownlee tried to reach accommodations with the UGG's competitors to divide among them centres too small to support more than one elevator, and achieved some success, especially with the Alberta Wheat Pool.
