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Cecil Smalley Photography A few times a year, farmers have to do a dangerous task; go inside large grain bins to take care of their harvest. Last year, more than 30 of them were trapped inside silos in the U.S., according to Purdue University. Two recent grads from the University of Nebraska at Omaha have invented a grain robot that could help farmers improve their crops and never have to go inside a grain bin again. When a grain bin is almost empty, farmers strap on a harness and climb insi...

-Messenger photo by Darcy Dougherty Maulsby While Diane Sommerfeld wanted to transform a small grain bin into a playhouse for her grandkids, the project grew to include a series of images that local artist Noel Blair painted around the 1,100-bushel bin. -Messenger photo by Darcy Dougherty Maulsby Artwork on the southwest side of the bin connects the past and present for the Sommerfeld family. The yellow airplane represents the Piper Cub flown by Sommerfeld’s father, Don O’Con...

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Agriculture data needed to plot the next crop. >> i suppose you also have to make equipment decision, right, investments? >> oh, thats an easy one. we dont have any money, so were not investing. >> reporter: he says the shutdown is a one-two punch that started with a trade war with china. this destroyed his profit margin in soy beans while raising the cost of his equipment. >> the cost of a new grain bin went up 15 to 25%. so things are already tight. if you are thinking of buying a grain bin, y...

Plan, this winter is a time to worry. >> as a farmer its kind of the worst time of year for the government to be shut down. if it was any other time of year we would be too busy in the field to care. in the winter months youre a business person. this is the time we are making business decisions. >> reporter: she says the shutdown makes it much harder to apply for loans, collect checks or see the department of agriculture data needed to plot the next cropme. i suppose you have to make business de...

Msnbc, the place for politics. now heres your "first look" at other news going on around america today. frightening moments at a miami beach gas station, after a car crashed into a pump. customers hurried to get away, fearing a disaster. a quick-thinking clerk shut off the pumps. in california, a man was rescued from a grain silo. he had been cleaning what was supposed to be an empty grain bin, but instead it filled up. trapping him all the way to his chest. rescuers had to dig over and over...

Load. for the prices were to go down, id be fortunate i sold. but i sold them in december when the market was rallying, so i left profit on the table. this pile of soybeans represents about production. i will plant more soybeans next year. the first 20 years i farmed, it was very hard to be profitable. and we didnt have good export markets. now the world soybean market is exciting and these soybeans will go right from my grain bin to a truck, into a container, and several weeks later be unloaded...