Grain Storage Issues

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Grain Storage Issues
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Future Storage Needs ?
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Who Builds New Storage?

• Commercial Grain Companies
• Land Owner
• Renter

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Commercial Storage

• Bigger Bins Cheaper per bushel cost
• Drying Handling Equipment already in place
• Manpower to handle the crop
• Assume quality risk
• Eliminates reloading from farm bin
• Saves labor handling shrink
• Eliminates over-drying cost shrink

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Commercial Storage

• Instant payment after grain sale
• End users need steady grain flow
• Normally trade large lots
• Able to deliver large volume in short time
• Commercials trade basis not price

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Land Owner

• On-Farm storage is convenient at harvest
• Tax savings
• More flexible marketing options
• Saves storage cost
• Saves some drying cost ?
• Who checks the bin when they go south

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Land Owner

• Double handling
• Quality risk
• Most farm storage cant handle wet crop
• Equipment maintenance
• Property tax insurance
• Have to move grain to get paid
• Would renter use the storage
• Why invest, Im retiring

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Renter

• Many farm on large scale
• Haul with semis
• Most interested in speed
• Typically sell more grain ahead of harvest
• Dont want to check multiple bins over winter
• Wont invest in facilities on rented land

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Grain In StorageQuality Issues

• Soybeans harvested well over 13 moisture
• Lots of bean storage with little or no air
• Low oil yield
• Low protein soybean meal
• High moisture soybean meal

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Grain In StorageQuality Issues

• Corn Harvested 25 - 35 moisture
• Should be dried twice
• Inadequate air on most farm storage to handle
  corn crop this wet
• Mycotoxins
• Low test weight
• Excessive kernel breakage
• Protein Starch- Amino Acids