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By MICHAEL CRIMMINS
Glasgow News 1
Drivers traveling along Interstate 65 may soon see grain storages out their car windows due to a contract made between the Barren County Fiscal Court and Blumberg Grain and Logistics, a global food security and storage company.
Barren County Judge-Executive Jamie Bewley Byrd announced the agreement on Oct. 14 with the county press release noting that “farmers growing corn and other grains have very little storage infrastructure readily available and transportation costs, like most other costs, has significantly impacted farmers in Barren County and the surrounding counties.”
“The fiscal court and I are determined to provide the storage infrastructure our farmers need, here in Barren County, so that they can cut costs and, at the same time, we can look at expanding job opportunities and other economic benefits that come from storing and processing our farm products close to home,” Byrd said in the release. “We determined that Blumberg Grain was the partner we needed to work with us on determining what we need and how best to design and construct the storage infrastructure that would provide the most benefit to our farmers.”
Barren County will be working with Blumberg Grain and the office of Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture Jonathan Shell to develop a planning and feasibility study that will then be utilized to initiate the design and construction of grain storage infrastructure on property the County will acquire adjacent to Interstate 65, the Barren County press release stated.
Philip F. Blumberg, CEO of Blumberg Grain, said they are excited to be working with Barren County Fiscal Court and Byrd on this infrastructure project.
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