Editing Grain elevator (section)

==Usage and definitions==
[[File:Saskatchewan, grain elevator, Kodachrome by Scott Williams.jpg|thumb|Saskatchewan Wheat Pool No. 7, [[Thunder Bay]], Ontario]]
In [[Australian English]], the term "grain elevator" is reserved for elevator towers, while a receival and storage building or complex is distinguished by the formal term "receival point" or as a "wheat bin" or "silo". Large-scale grain receival, storage, and [[logistics]] operations are known in Australia as bulk handling.

In Canada, the term "grain elevator" is used to refer to a place where farmers sell grain into the global grain distribution system, and/or a place where the grain is moved into rail cars or ocean-going ships for transport. Specifically, several types of grain elevators are defined under Canadian law, in the ''Canadian Grain Act'', section 2.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grainscanada.gc.ca/wa-aw/geic-sgc/help-aider-eng.htm |title=Descriptions of types of grain elevators licensed by the Canadian Grain Commission |publisher=Grainscanada.gc.ca |date=2010-01-12 |access-date=2013-03-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131120014736/http://grainscanada.gc.ca/wa-aw/geic-sgc/help-aider-eng.htm |archive-date=2013-11-20 }}</ref>
* Primary elevators (called "country elevators" before 1971) receive grain directly from producers for storage, forwarding, or both.
* Process elevators (called "mill elevators" before 1971) receive and store grain for direct manufacture or processing into other products.
* Terminal elevators receive grain on or after official inspection and weighing and clean, store, and treat grain before moving it forward.
* Transfer elevators (including "Eastern elevators" from the pre-1971 classification) transfer grain that has been officially inspected and weighed at another elevator. In the Eastern Division, transfer elevators also receive, clean, and store eastern or foreign grain.