The first rail car of the harvest season was loaded this week at the new $40 million South Dakota Wheat Growers grain terminal at Kennebec. General Manager Todd Longville says they filled the first car with soybeans as part of a 115-car unit train.

He says so far business at the new terminal has been very good and they’ve been busy with the soybean harvest as the farmers in their area have brought in a bumper crop.

Longville says the season was kick started with the excellent winter wheat harvest. However, he says they haven’t started shipping any of that crop yet.

The rail that serves the Kennebec grain terminal runs from Mitchell to Rapid City.