Alberta Wheat Pool is building two new grain facilities in the southeastern part of the province.
The high volume steel facilities at Blackie and Brooks are scheduled to open next year. Total cost is $10.3 million.
Both sites offer a Mobiload unit, a licensed grain facility on wheels. It can draw grain from bins on the farm, weigh it, test protein and load semi trailers on site.
Brooks will get a 9,500 tonne elevator 11 kilometres west of town on Highway 36. The facility will be able to load a 56-car train in 10 hours.
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The new elevator replaces the one destroyed by fire last August, said John Jenkins, of the country business unit at Medicine Hat.
An interim facility was set up at Brooks but one of the temporary steel storage tanks collapsed, prompting construction to start immediately with a planned opening for next spring.
The Blackie facility is designed to hold 15,000 tonnes and can also load a 56-car train in 10 hours. There will be extended hours and as market conditions demand, farmers can deliver to the elevator around the clock, seven days a week. It is scheduled to open in September 1998.
It will be built on 25 acres north of the existing Blackie elevator on the Aldersyde subdivision.
