United Parcel Service is making a high-stakes bet that robots can fix one of the messiest, most labor intensive parts of ...

As FedEx Corp. and UPS Inc. beef up automation to keep pace with surging e-commerce and a potential threat from Amazon.com, they’ve been stumped at a crucial stage: loading and unloading trucks. Robot ...

Gavilon Grain, Nebraska City, can store up to 6.5 million bushels of grain. A probe pulls sample of grain for testing before being bought at Gavilon Grain in Nebraska City. A truck pulls in to unload ...

RAPID CITY - For the first time since March, trucks are unloading grain at the former ConAgra elevator at Fifth and Omaha Streets today. Dakota Mill and Grain finalized its purchase of the former ...

A seemingly endless line of trucks -- each hauling 30 tons of wheat -- recently unloaded their amber harvest at the largest grain storage company in the Tri-Cities. Halfway through wheat harvest, ...

As FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service Inc. beef up automation to keep pace with surging e-commerce and a potential threat from Amazon.com Inc., they’ve been stumped at a crucial stage: loading and ...

APLINGTON -- Grain augers are painfully slow. Aplington farmers Kenny and Eric Johnson used to dread the time it took to empty a grain bin. Even worse, the father-son team said the churning, corkscrew ...

From combine to truck and back again and again, auger wagons are an integral component in the harvest square dance. It’s been said that using auger wagons during harvest and unloading on the go can ...