So Clive your asking the question to create more traffic from members to satisfy your advertisers then?
Grain bin costs?
- Thread starter Clive
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- Location
- Bedfordshire
We store and dry about 3500 tonnes of milling wheat and other crops in 3 sheds on drying floors every year. There are 2 electric fans per shed, either 18 or 22 kW each. and humidity controlling propane burners. We can dry, cool and condition every tonne and keep it for years if we need to. You obviously do not have this type of system in Aus, but is common on UK farms. The grain is stored at either 3m or 3.6m depth. 3m is best for anything over 17%IF you are a SERIOUS grain grower, then bins / silos are the ONLY way to go for long term storage, maintaining quality & insect / pest control, and also for segregation or blending of different grades & quality, or for different crop types.
If you are more of a small time property developer than a real farmer & are looking at ways to get around planning rules, then yeah, sheds might be the go for you . . .
yeah, sheds ARE cheaper per tonne of storage, but are only really useful for short term storage of bulk generic low quality “feed” grains. Not so good for long term storage ( which you can get paid for by the buyers - we call it “carry” ) of quality milling grades though. Suppose that’s not such an issue in the UK
https://rural.struttandparker.com/a...-grain-store-eligible-for-capital-allowances/ a link to the case about grain store tax allowance
I would expect it in your position tbh
no - my post follows a conversation about my new shed i had last week where i was asked why we hadn’t built bins instead - i was asked how much cheaper bins may have been and didn’t know the answer
i really don’t need to start threads to create traffic
TFF has plenty going on without my inputi was just using the forums like others, to try learn something, looks like it may have produced some useful info regarding tax however!
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
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. . .of course, still only second rate compared to dedicated bins
A lot more labour involved, & still can’t be airtight for insect control or fumigation with CO2
Ask yourself - do flour mills store wheat in sheds or silos ?
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
Any shed can be depreciated here, not just dedicated grain storage, as long as it is for business purposes. ie - hay shed, machinery shed etc
Always something to learn, even if it isn’t what you set about wanting to know!!no - my post follows a conversation about my new shed i had last week where i was asked why we hadn’t built bins instead - i was asked how much cheaper bins may have been and didn’t know the answer
i really don’t need to start threads to create traffic
i was just using the forums like others, to try learn something, looks like it may have produced some useful info regarding tax however!
Woldgrain Storage
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- Location
- Hemswell, North Lincs
Thanks, only just seen this thread.
So £115 per tonne, plus electricals and filling the silo.
Our latest expansion has worked out at £120, including:
2 silos
all planning costs
Groundworks
concrete bases
elevators
conveyors
sweep augers
fans
temperature monitoring
all software
all wiring
all erection
outloading spout
outloading pad
and silly green paint.
Add in an intake pit and drier and our two new silos would be a stand-alone store.
Our reasoning for choosing silos is not so much cost related, but more to do with needing the flexibility of lots of storage segregations, maximising automation and getting more tonnage onto a limited site area.
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Bogweevil
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But think of the mouse plagues those aussie farmers get - none of that here tho' some of us are old enough to remember the great Dorset vole plague of '78.
- Location
- Shropshire
But the majority of flour Mills in the uk are in built up areas where space is a premium.
how many tonnes in each silo ?
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
- Location
- Buckinghamshire
In sheds and very big ones at thatyawn
of course, still only second rate compared to dedicated bins
A lot more labour involved, & still can’t be airtight for insect control or fumigation with CO2
Ask yourself - do flour mills store wheat in sheds or silos ?
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
Daniel
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- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
All these costs have apparently rocketed on the back of steel prices though
Also, green paint is well worth it!
Woldgrain Storage
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- Location
- Hemswell, North Lincs
At the moment we are working on 6825 cubic metres, but we will know a more exact tonnage when the first one is filled, by looking at the weighbridge data.
We don't have the size of site to store grain 10' deep in sheds when we could store it 60' deep in silos. The price per tonne would not be much different, we would still be filling and emptying by conveyors & elevators.
Fortunately all our orders were placed before Covid.
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
You’ve now got me thinking about an Amazon style warehouse 60’ high filled to the brim with grain.
