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Highway 63 reopened after big corn spill

ROCHESTER, Minn. (FOX 47) -- A big mess for the morning commute, when a tractor-trailer rolled on the exit ramp at southbound Highway 52 onto southbound Highway 63.

The tractor-trailer spilled massive amounts of corn onto the ramp and the southbound lanes of traffic at 6:22 a.m.

Southbound lanes of Highway 63 were closed for more than two hours for clean up.

Traffic was flowing again around 9 a.m.

The driver of the semi, Kevin Sjoquist, 52, of Red Wing, suffered a minor injury. 

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