Snittjer Grain celebrates expansion with ribbon cutting

Seventy-one years after the company was founded, Snittjer Grain continues to grow.
           
The Wellsburg-based company marked the completion of a multimillion-dollar expansion project that included two 15,000-bushel pits, two 300,000-bushel bins and a 650,000-bushel bin on Tuesday morning with a ribbon cutting ceremony in front of the new real estate. According to General Manager J.R. Kennedy, it boiled down to necessity.
           
“We’ve been picking up some business, and obviously (there have been) some higher yields,” he said. “We’re just trying to avoid putting (grain) on the ground and keeping it in upright storage.”
           
Kennedy, a Wellsburg native whose great-uncle founded Snittjer, sees the company’s continued growth as an investment in the community, and he hopes the added storage will help them serve even more farmers in the future. 
 
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