Grain pads - alternatives to concrete?

ajd132

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Arable Farmer
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Suffolk
Off topic.
I am sure a hell of a lot of Ukrainian grain will be stored outside this year, IF they can harvest it, and the countries desperate for it will be only too glad of it.
Not good when someone thinks grain can’t be stored outside for at least a month.
Surely any farmer tipping outside will have it moved ASAP as it’s in his own interest, due to birds and deer getting at it.
Of course. And it certainly isn’t in a stores best interest to take stuff in that could contaminate a large bulk
 

Pilatus

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cotswolds
I would have thought Cooperative grainstore companies store grain outside at harvest , especially a wet harvest as can’t see that drier capacity would ever keep up with quantity of grain coming in to be dried.
 

Grass And Grain

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Mixed Farmer
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Yorks
If it's stored inside, then the rodents get in, but the birds are locked out, except for when shed door is open at harvest. And the outside tipping pits/grids at stores/mills, with a canopy over them, are magnets to pigeons and salmonella, with droppings all over the pits.

So nothing is perfect, and getting failed by RT for not writing down what time I washed the grain bucket won't help a jot. Especially if Mr Farmer has just been loading FYM, and it's all over the wheels, but RT doesn't ask about that, because they haven't thought about it. Which goes to show box ticking is pointless, because the RT standards department can't think of all eventualities. You've simply to use common sense.
 

Andy26

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Northants
Stored correctly outside for short period is no problem.

If it's destined for one of the big central stores, it will be sampled, cleaned and dried on intake as routine.

Heaped up a pile of grain is very weatherproof,the water will not drain through the heap as you may expect, instead it runs off, only the top half inch of grain gets a little wet, below the surface there will be dust.
 

ajd132

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Arable Farmer
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Suffolk
Stored correctly outside for short period is no problem.

If it's destined for one of the big central stores, it will be sampled, cleaned and dried on intake as routine.

Heaped up a pile of grain is very weatherproof,the water will not drain through the heap as you may expect, instead it runs off, only the top half inch of grain gets a little wet, below the surface there will be dust.
It’s abit worrying when you first do it and it gets rained on but as you say it’s absolutely fine.
 
I would have thought Cooperative grainstore companies store grain outside at harvest , especially a wet harvest as can’t see that drier capacity would ever keep up with quantity of grain coming in to be dried.

We never have done, because we manage the intake speed to match our drier throughput (250tph @5% FW).

I've seen other stores do it where their intake is wetter and/or have less drying capacity, or where intake haulage runs into the evenings.
 

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