MIAMI COUNTY, Ohio -- A Miami County farmer on his way to the ethanol plant in Greenville dumped his double load of corn just a few miles from his home in a pre-dawn traffic mishap.

It happened at the intersection of State Route 721 and Laughman Road southwest of Pleasant Hill in Miami County. The time was about 5:45 a.m.

Miami County deputies said that Dick Wetzel, 71, of Pemberton Road near Laura, make a wide turn and got off the highway onto the berm when his grain truck, pulling a hopper wagon, rolled over onto its side.

He spilled an estimated 600 bushels of shelled corn into the side ditch, said Sgt. Lee McCartney of the Miami County Sheriff's Department.

Wetzel was checked at the scene by paramedics from the Pleasant Hill-Newton Township Squad. He was not taken to a hospital.