Kensal Farmers ElevatorKensal, North Dakota (701) 435-2451
Concrete and steel grain elevators beside a snow-covered rail yard on a cold, clear morning

Grain in by truck. Out by rail.

The Kensal Farmers Elevator Co. 611 Parker Street, Kensal, North Dakota.

Call (701) 435-2451 Address and fax

Elevators and a rail yard under fresh snow. Stock photograph, not the Kensal elevator.

Call before you haul

Bids, hours and where to dump change through the year. They change fastest at harvest. One call to the elevator saves a wasted trip.

(701) 435-2451

Fax (701) 435-2214. Settlement sheets, contracts and paperwork can go by fax.

A semi truck parked at the edge of a ripe wheat field under summer clouds
Wheat ready to cut and a truck waiting at the field edge. Stock photograph.

What the elevator does

Five lines of work, all run from Parker Street. Ask about any of them on the phone.

A green combine cutting a small grain field
Small grain coming off the field. Stock photograph.

Grain handling

Trucks come in over the scale and dump. For what the elevator is taking this season, and today's bids, call the office.

Steel grain bins beside a tall column grain dryer, seen from above
Steel bins and a column dryer. Stock photograph, not this site.
Two corrugated steel grain bins on a snow-covered field under a deep blue sky
Bins in a January field. Stock photograph.

Drying

Tough or wet grain can be dried here. Ask about moisture and drying charges before you load.

Storage

Grain can be stored at the elevator instead of sold off the truck. Storage terms are set by the office, so call for them.

Fertilizer

The elevator handles fertilizer as well as grain. For products, orders and pickup, call the same number.

Close view of ripe wheat heads in late summer light
Wheat heads in late summer. Stock photograph.

Rail loading

Grain leaves Kensal by rail as well as by truck. Car orders, train timing and loading days change, so the elevator is the place to ask.

A long train of covered hopper cars running across open country toward a concrete elevator
A grain train strung out toward a concrete elevator. Stock photograph, elsewhere.
Covered hopper cars parked on a siding beside a gravel road
Hoppers waiting on a siding.
Looking down the length of a line of hopper cars from beside the ladder
Down the length of the cut.
Weathered covered hopper cars with discharge gates visible underneath
Discharge gates under a covered hopper.
The end of a covered hopper car on a curving track under a clear sky
The end car on a curve.
Low view under a hopper car with the sun breaking through below the frame
Low sun under the cars.
Two white covered hopper cars coupled together, seen side on
Two cars, coupled.
Hopper cars lined up on a track at dusk
Last light on the line.

Swipe or scroll the cars sideways. All are stock photographs of hopper cars, not Kensal equipment.

Locomotives pulling a long string of white hopper cars past a grain elevator in brown late-autumn country
Locomotives bring a grain train past an elevator in late autumn. Stock photograph.

Kensal, North Dakota

A small Stutsman County town on the Northern Plains. Wheat, durum, canola and sunflowers grow on the land around it.

Ask the elevator which crops it is buying before harvest starts.

The main street of Kensal with low brick buildings and parked pickups
Kensal in June 2008. Andrew Filer, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0.
An old postcard of a Kensal street with a brick storefront, labelled Kensal, North Dakota
Kensal on an old postcard. Public domain.
A single yellow sunflower in green prairie grass
Sunflower on a North Dakota grassland. US Forest Service, public domain.
Wind-sculpted snow drifts across open prairie at dusk, with a shelterbelt of trees
Drifts against a shelterbelt at dusk. US Fish and Wildlife Service, public domain.

Winter hauling

Winters here are long and the wind is big. Roads drift shut fast.

In a storm, call before you load. Check the elevator is open and the yard is clear before the truck leaves the farm.

Animal tracks crossing blue-shadowed snow at first light
Tracks at first light.
Two round bales sitting in snowy crop stubble under a heavy sky
Bales left in the stubble. Stock photograph.
Flat snow-covered field meeting a hard blue winter sky
Nothing between you and the horizon.

Find the elevator

Address
611 Parker St
Kensal, ND 58455
Open in maps
Phone
(701) 435-2451
Fax
(701) 435-2214
Hours, bids and delivery
Call the elevator. They change with the season.

For anything urgent, phone. For the rest, leave a message.