The truck traffic at Kokomo Grain Company is constant. "We will process between 400 and 500 trucks a day in the 12-14 hour day at this facility," says Senior Grain Merchandiser Mike Silver. He says all of the truckloads of corn and soybeans can add up to 750,000 bushels per day. Trucks dump the grain quickly, but a long line soon snakes around the Kokomo Grain’s entrance. Indiana and several other Midwestern states are poised to break records with this year’s yields, so the grain elevators here are already halfway full. And, Grain Manager Tom Madru says there’s plenty of crops that still have to be harvested. "It’s been kind of an unusual harvest where normally we get corn started early and then beans kick in, but we’ve had an unusually wet fall," Madru says. "So, the beans have been delayed. Normally, we’d be done with beans for about two weeks now, but we’re just finishing up beans." But, there’s a problem – room to store the remaining crops is dwindling. Some grain elevators are
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