cost of grain store

Andy26

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Arable Farmer
Location
Northants
The question was partly to see if there are economies of scale. So say 500 tonnes and 15000 tonnes.

That's a 30 times difference, there will be a big difference.

I'd think it would range from £40-150/t.

What do you call a drier? A rusty old Opico, wheeled out the front for a few weeks, or an integrated drier with wet reception bins, fully automatic controls etc.?
With a 15,000 tonne store you'd probably want segregation facilities and the ability to blend. The 500t store would probably be a shed with a concrete floor. So its Apples and pears.

Offer some specs. and you will get more meaningful replies.
 

Derky

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Location
Bucks/oxon
Depends on segregation too. A 5000 tonne store split up into bays and bunkers will be expensive. One big shed cheaper. We talking underfloor ventilation ?
 
What would you expect a new grain store with grain drier to cost. £./ton.?

Last year we built a 2000 cbm capacity shed (thats level fill not heap) and the total finished price for the shed is £70k. We made use of some old roof bars but other than that it was completely new materials used. The price includes the concrete floors, wall panels, cladding, elec, doors, guttering etc. I have split it into 2 giving me 2 x 1000cbm bays although in reality with a single crop it can fit 2000t of wheat in it with a heap and it was built to withstand 5000t surcharge. There is no drier or air flow in it at the moment as I am using upright lishman things.

I've built it to take our existing stirrer so long term I probably will build an air tunnel down either side of the shed and then cut in air flow tunnels across the floor so I can condition more effectively and make use of the stirrer better.
 

PostHarvest

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Location
Warwick
The figure of £100 per ton has been around for years. Warksfarmers shed has a capacity of 2000cbm or 1500 ton level fill so that works out at about £45 per ton for the store without dryer fan, drying floor or laterals etc. I'd guess that fitting the drying kit plus electrics etc would take it up to £75 - £80 per ton, which sounds a pretty keen price.
 
The figure of £100 per ton has been around for years. Warksfarmers shed has a capacity of 2000cbm or 1500 ton level fill so that works out at about £45 per ton for the store without dryer fan, drying floor or laterals etc. I'd guess that fitting the drying kit plus electrics etc would take it up to £75 - £80 per ton, which sounds a pretty keen price.

But what kind of drier? I could buy a used 38t master drier and set it going automatically with a 500t hopper to load.

Or I've thought about getting a 1000t silo with inbuilt stirrer and drier then use it as a batch drier into the shed

Or as mentioned build a tunnel down each side then cut in grooves across the floor. For each tunnel up with an old typhoon fan and heater bank and then make use of my existing stirrer.

Options 1 and 2 wouldn't take the price to £80/t.
 

DieselRob

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BASE UK Member
Location
North Yorkshire
Cheers Lee, thats similar to the size of shed I'm interested in pricing up for ourselves, have you put a fixed division down the middle or have you used A/Y section walls so you can adjust depending on cropping?
 
Location
N Yorks
I have 37 by 17 by 4m high walls. I surcharge fill with a conveyor in ridge and get 2500 tonnes in. Doorway blocked up with timbers and lift out one by one when starting to empty.

Floor has proper laterals every 15 foot with fan points down one side of shed. We dry to 15% then just cool over winter

Just one big space.

Cost under £100k including conveyor from existing drier setup. £40/t.

You can't beat having your own storage. Combined barley today, knocked off 8pm dryer stopped 9pm, corn in shed
 

Robert

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Location
South East
Last year we built a 2000 cbm capacity shed (thats level fill not heap) and the total finished price for the shed is £70k. We made use of some old roof bars but other than that it was completely new materials used. The price includes the concrete floors, wall panels, cladding, elec, doors, guttering etc. I have split it into 2 giving me 2 x 1000cbm bays although in reality with a single crop it can fit 2000t of wheat in it with a heap and it was built to withstand 5000t surcharge. There is no drier or air flow in it at the moment as I am using upright lishman things.

I've built it to take our existing stirrer so long term I probably will build an air tunnel down either side of the shed and then cut in air flow tunnels across the floor so I can condition more effectively and make use of the stirrer better.

The figure of £100 per ton has been around for years. Warksfarmers shed has a capacity of 2000cbm or 1500 ton level fill so that works out at about £45 per ton for the store without dryer fan, drying floor or laterals etc. I'd guess that fitting the drying kit plus electrics etc would take it up to £75 - £80 per ton, which sounds a pretty keen price.

I have 37 by 17 by 4m high walls. I surcharge fill with a conveyor in ridge and get 2500 tonnes in. Doorway blocked up with timbers and lift out one by one when starting to empty.

Floor has proper laterals every 15 foot with fan points down one side of shed. We dry to 15% then just cool over winter

Just one big space.

Cost under £100k including conveyor from existing drier setup. £40/t.

You can't beat having your own storage. Combined barley today, knocked off 8pm dryer stopped 9pm, corn in shed

Just planning a new grain store based on permitted development size ~ 465m2. Essentially an 18m x 24m x 4m store, considering going 8m to eaves to enable ridge conveyor filling in the future. Concrete walls designed to be surcharged from the central conveyor. Obviously the shed's relatively short length doesn't make it the most efficient space at the outset (would possibly aim to double up latterly) but cost looks set to be around £70/t. This is a well spec'd shed - galvanized, all metal purlins etc. Amazed to see how @warksfarmer & @l'ordinary bonville have achieved it for £40 - £45; have prices changed a lot in 2-3 years or do I need to get some more quotes? From what I can gather the kind of kits we see promoted in the farming press amount to ~ 40% of the whole build cost by the time the delivery / ground works / foundations / erection / concreters / electrician etc have finished. Any comments - thanks!
 
Just planning a new grain store based on permitted development size ~ 465m2. Essentially an 18m x 24m x 4m store, considering going 8m to eaves to enable ridge conveyor filling in the future. Concrete walls designed to be surcharged from the central conveyor. Obviously the shed's relatively short length doesn't make it the most efficient space at the outset (would possibly aim to double up latterly) but cost looks set to be around £70/t. This is a well spec'd shed - galvanized, all metal purlins etc. Amazed to see how @warksfarmer & @l'ordinary bonville have achieved it for £40 - £45; have prices changed a lot in 2-3 years or do I need to get some more quotes? From what I can gather the kind of kits we see promoted in the farming press amount to ~ 40% of the whole build cost by the time the delivery / ground works / foundations / erection / concreters / electrician etc have finished. Any comments - thanks!

It's more hassle but if you split the build down instead of going for a total package you will save a lot. We used a local fabricator who came on site measured up then gave us a shopping list. We bought the materials from various suppliers using the cheapest priced materials from each but making sure it was the exact spec required.

The fabricator built the shed whilst we dug out for the uprights. He then positioned them and we ordered the concrete doing them all in a day. We hired a long reach telescopic as well for a week.

I should say the hard standing was already done as it was built on hard standing yard area which used to have an old Dutch barn on it.

So in that week with the machine on hire the fabricator erected the shed and put the whole frame up and roof panels on. Then with the farms loader we put the concrete panels in and then cladded down.

Once this was done we had a 3cx and operator in for a day to level the floor up and top it off, we hired a roller and rolled it ourselves, then a concrete layer in for the floor. Again we bought the concrete ourselves.

Did the electrics in house so saved on that cost but it's only single phase as the 3 phase cable in the end was a frightening cost.

Bit of a phaff to be honest but it's cheaper. Same fabricator has just quoted for a separate job and the labour price is now up by 10%.
 

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