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New kit dislodges material from grain bin sumps

By SUE ROESLER, Farm & Ranch Guide
Sep 15, 2020
Sep 15, 2020

The Bin SumpPRO help clear chunks from plugging the sump in a grain bin.

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By SUE ROESLER, Farm & Ranch Guide

After Shawn Gengerke, a fifth-generation producer in Groton, S.D., heard that some friends of his family had experienced a grain bin tragedy, he wanted to do something about it.

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