BATTLE LAKE, Minn. — The October harvested corn was dry enough to forgo using heat from the grain dryer at Dean Jorud’s farm in Otter Tail County this harvest season. Most years there’s a need to take ...

It’s been a mostly dry and warm harvest with bins filling quickly with corn and soybeans on farms and at country elevators.

The devastating results of fire can include death, serious injury, financial loss, property damage, business interruption and production downtime. Grain dryer fires are one of the most significant ...

Otter Tail County deputies along with firefighters from Dalton, Elbow Lake, Wendell, and Fergus Falls responded to a grain ...

There was a fire at an Alpine Township farm Wednesday night when a grain dryer caught fire. Lieutenant Brian Stalsonburg with the Alpine Township Fire Department said the fire began when the operator ...

DAMASCUS — The cause of a fire in the grain dryer at Witmer’s Feed & Grain on Front Street early Sunday has been deemed undetermined, Damascus Fire Chief Derek Day said. Damages have been estimated at ...

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A fire at Olsen Crop Services, LLC, on Viroqua’s north side late Wednesday, Dec. 9, and early Thursday, Dec. 10, destroyed the facility’s grain dryer. The Viroqua location manager for Olsen’s, Jay ...