Grain bin costs?

[Chickcatcher]

You’ve now got me thinking about an Amazon style warehouse 60’ high filled to the brim with grain.

Here is an update for you, Amazon round here have taken a huge on floor grain store (was contract storing) and are turning it into a store for there goods. High enough to tip an artic in and for it to turn round in. Lucky grain yields are so low round here it wont be missed

 

[DrWazzock]

Does make me wonder how long it will be before shed storage is deemed unhygienic. Loaders and trailers wheeling in and out of the storage area isn’t ideal and vermin proofing is trickier. Prefer bins myself but largely stuck with sheds. And I find driving a loader tedious. Prefer an auger spout and push buttons. In an ideal world I’d have silos. Self emptying of course.

 

[DrWazzock]

Surely silos must be a more efficient use of materials. No roof space needed for tipping, deeper grain storage, so more per square metre floor area. I think we have a bit of a phobia about “bins” due to remembering time spent with aluminium hand shovels and 8 tph cup and belt elevators.

 

[Steevo]

Does make me wonder how long it will be before shed storage is deemed unhygienic. Loaders and trailers wheeling in and out of the storage area isn’t ideal and vermin proofing is trickier. Prefer bins myself but largely stuck with sheds. And I find driving a loader tedious. Prefer an auger spout and push buttons. In an ideal world I’d have silos. Self emptying of course.

No less hygienic than when the crop was out in the field….that is where it came from of course and I don’t know many farmers who wash and disinfect every grain that comes in.

 

[teslacoils]

Ask yourself - do flour mills store wheat in sheds or silos ?

UK mills store wheat on UK farms, or in UK lorries. I doubt many have more than a weeks storage. Infact I'd say maybe four days storage to get through a bank holiday weekend.

 

[Wombat]

UK mills store wheat on UK farms, or in UK lorries. I doubt many have more than a weeks storage. Infact I'd say maybe four days storage to get through a bank holiday weekend.

I was going to type most UK flour mills use artics for storage

 

[B'o'B]

UK mills store wheat on UK farms, or in UK lorries. I doubt many have more than a weeks storage. Infact I'd say maybe four days storage to get through a bank holiday weekend.

I doubt most have more than 48hours physical on site storage. Lorries for anything else.

Edit: At the same time they will treat the hauliers with the utmost contempt for saving them a fortune on a infrastructure.

 

[Woldgrain Storage]

Conversely, the maltsters have cottoned on to the concept of storage as being a potential asset and some now have more significant storage at their disposal, which helps give control over quality of intake and stability of supply.

Slightly different ball game though, as storage is often longer term, the quality spec more rigorous and the processing more finicky.

 

[warksfarmer]

yawn . . .

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 ?

Both