Abandoned Granary

This is an abandoned granary near my parents' acreage in Lashburn, SK. It is no longer extant, having been bulldozed in October, 2020 to ease the passage of large machinery during seeding and harvest, and to maximize use of the field in which it sat. In its heyday, the design was innovative and functional as the steep grade of the hill it was built into allowed grain to be dumped straight through the roof on one side of the building, and fed directly into a truck on the opposite side via gravity, eliminating the need for an auger. To me, both the granary's initial construction and eventual demolition illustrate the changing ways farming impacts the land.