This grain elevator owner and others are expanding storage during an unusual harvest

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Supply is expected to surpass traditional grain storage capacity in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. Some elevators, including historic Ely's in Nebraska, are adding temporary storage.

You can feel the semis hauling grain before you see them in Guide Rock, Nebraska. Their vibrations roll through town before fading into the hum of Ely’s grain elevator at the end of Main Street.

More than 100 deliveries will come through the town of 200 from nearby fields on a peak harvest day. That’s a lot of corn and soybean business for an otherwise quiet town near the Kansas border.

“It’s us, the bank and the post office,” said John Ely, the elevator