Quick! Where's Bucyrus?

This is another incredible story coming out of North Dakota.

The Bismarck Tribune is reporting:

Last week the easternmost elevator in a grain-chain owned by a Japanese global conglomerate, Mitsui and Co., was filling a unit train with golden North Dakota spring wheat bound for export from terminals in Vancouver, WA.

Including that near brush with fire, it's been a big year and an important one for Mitsui's subsidiary, United Grain Corporation, making inroads into some of the country's premiere wheat fields.

Tony Flagg, who heads development for United Grain, said the Bucyrus facility is one of three the company built to secure export-bound grain and the most important for topnotch spring wheat quality. The other two are in Montana at Conrad and Culbertson.
The Bucyrus Elevator is still a bit raw around the edges, but it's been a success since opening its doors in early August, Flagg said.

If anything, the company wasn't prepared for the amount of grain that came in the door. Three unit trains, each filled with 440,000 bushels, weren't enough to handle the incoming wheat. Two more are scheduled this month.

Go to the linked story to see how much wheat they are shipping, how they are going to out-compete Montana. 

Bucyrus is about 60 miles due south of Dickinson.

Incredible story.

By the way, the Japanese must be amazed how fast "they" can get things done in North Dakota: this project was announced less than a year ago, back in September, 2012.