Our urban neighbours may have soaring steel and concrete towers covered with glass, and filled with every imaginable type of lifestyle and business venture, but out on the vast undulating Prairie we have a different kind of skyscraper ... they've replaced the old wooden elevators that used to mark the distances across the landscape and tell weary travellers that a town is approaching.The modern sky scrappers are an organized jumble of steel and concrete and bear names like Pionner, Viterra, Cargill, Patterson and now newcomers like Mohawk who buy the grain the grows and ripens in the fields these monoliths stand sentinel over. They stand farther apart than their now geriatric predecessors, but they still mark the miles along the highways and railway tracks along which they stand.
They may not be as flashy nor as magnificent as the towers that line our urban streets, but without these ubiquitous elevators and storage facilities none of the wealth that pushed the glass towers skyward would ever have been created and found ... In Minnedosa we have two concrete towers thrusting skyward ... one had just been re-branded from Agricore-United to Pioneer, and the other is being readied to begin ethanol production at the new multi-million dollar Mohawk Ethanol expansion ... both remind all who pass by that agriculture remains the heartbeat of our prairie towns ...
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