Winema Elevators

I think this is quite an elegant looking structure.............it looks lovely in the sunshine! The vehicles in the shot give a good sense of scale!

Thanks, Keith. That is the way I see them, too, Keith. I've always been kind of awe-struck by these silos and would to have a tour. I wonder what that tower on the left is for.

My late father worked for a UK company that designed these **...

To answer your question.
The tower* at the left houses the elevator that gets the incoming grain from the "ground" to the level of the top of the silos. There it is discharged onto the conveyor that takes it to the storage silos. By the way, the dust is removed and stored as well - it is the dust which can explode ...
(Grain is discharged from the bottom of the silos)
(A modern facility will monitor and record temperature and humidity levels constantly.)
(*that same tower will also house the power plant and drive motors / gear boxes for the handling systems).

**And the systems that gets the grain out of ships ...