He Built His Own Grain Bin in 1973—The Neighbor’s $19,000 Bin Was Lost in the 1993 Flood
On a Wednesday afternoon in April of 1973, on the loading dock of a regional steel supply yard in Kansas City, Missouri, a thirty-three-year-old farmer named Conrad Hettler counted out one thousand eight hundred dollars in cash for a stack of galvanized twenty-gauge sheet steel and a heavy carton of bolts and gussets. The yard […]
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