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Keeping grain in good condition will help grain flow without issues when unloading, reduce risks to workers, maintain grain quality and better ensure you get the best price for your grain.

Avoid entrapment incidents with proper grain storage

By Canadian Agricultural Safety Association June 8, 2020

As farmers, you understand the importance of proper storage of your crops. High temperatures and humidity levels can drastically impact grain quality. But how is this a safety concern? This past year, we experienced a very wet harvest season and crops were put into storage in wet conditions. Once spring weather arrives, the grain will […] Read more

Severe flooding in the U.S. Midwest may weigh on plantable acreage this spring for producers such as Justin Mensik, a corn and soybean grower shown here March 22, 2019 at his farm at Morse Bluff, Neb., about 70 km west of Omaha. (Photo: Reuters/Humeyra Pamuk)

Crops, Reuters, Weather

USDA won’t survey for volume of grain lost to March floods

By GFM Network News April 25, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s statistical arm will not collect data on the volume of harvested grain lost when farms from the Dakotas to Missouri were hit by flooding in March that burst grain storage bins, a government official said on Tuesday. However, figures in USDA’s regular quarterly stocks report for […] Read more

We marked out a circle on the ground to make sure the first few sheets were set out in the right shape.

Crops, Features

Our last minute grain storage solution

Mid-way through this year’s harvest, we set up two 9,600-bushel temporary grain bins

By Leeann Minogue October 24, 2018

Midway through this year’s harvest, we began to realize that we were likely going to run out of storage space before the terminal called in the canola we had under contract. There wasn’t time to buy a “real” bin and move it in. Since we don’t have a grain bagger, we talked to the neighbours […] Read more

horizontal image of five round steel grain bins sitting in a yellow canola field under a very cloudy sky in the summer

Canola, Features

On-farm storage and canola grain quality

Control what you can, and take steps to manage the rest

By Doug Moisey September 11, 2018

When it comes to your on-farm storage and maintaining canola grain quality, there are some elements you can control — and others you can’t. One area you can influence is the original condition of the canola seed going into your bins. Swathing at the correct stage or straight-cutting will help minimize many of the quality […] Read more

Crops, Features

Get the most from your grain bags

Try these three tips to get the most from your grain bag storage this harvest season

By Julienne Isaacs July 20, 2018

Many Western Canadian producers are turning to grain bags either as a backup to bin storage or a logistical solution during the busy harvest season. According to Dave Nelson, senior vice-president of sales for Loftness, there are a host of reasons why producers might want to consider grain bagging. “When all of the bins on […] Read more

(Commercial Port of Vladivostok, vmtp.ru)

Crops, Markets, Reuters

Russia to boost grain transport subsidies in 2018

By Reuters, GFM Network News December 7, 2017

Moscow | Reuters — Russia will spend two billion roubles (C$43 million) in grain transportation subsidies to help to speed exports in 2018, the deputy agriculture minister said on Thursday. Already among the world’s largest wheat exporters, Russia is trying to step up a gear after this year’s record crop, which is keeping its grain […] Read more

Crops, Machinery, Reuters

China to subsidize grain transportation, storage

By Reuters, GFM Network News November 24, 2017

Beijing | Reuters — China plans to subsidize grain transportation and storage facilities in the latest push by Beijing to modernize the world’s largest agriculture sector. Beijing will subsidize projects upgrading or building facilities to load and receive grains along main railways and ports for major waterways including the Yangtze and Pearl rivers, a document […] Read more

Crops

Wheat storage a winner, says analyst

By GFM Network News November 17, 2017

Winnipeg | CNS – As yields grow throughout North America and the physical size of the crop becomes larger, farmers who invest in storage bins now, stand to reap the rewards later. “Guys with space are winning,” said Kurt Ahrens, founder of Grainbot in Omaha, Nebraska. Speaking at the Grain World Conference in Winnipeg, he […] Read more

Bridgeland, a UFA/CHS joint venture, operates this fertilizer plant at the RedTail Business Park south of Sexsmith, Alta. (Video screengrab from Bridgeland.ag)

Crops

CHS sells stake in Bridgeland input venture to UFA

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News October 31, 2017

On the heels of its move to sell its wholly-owned crop input stores in Alberta and Saskatchewan, U.S. ag co-operative CHS is selling its remaining Alberta ag retail asset. Alberta farmer co-op UFA (United Farmers of Alberta) announced Tuesday it’s buying CHS’s interest in the two firms’ joint ag retail venture, Bridgeland Limited Partnership, for […] Read more

Crops, Features

Safer grain storage with automation?

PAMI tests a new Australian system that controls fans based on outside weather

By Leeann Minogue April 13, 2017

With more large bins on the farm, safe grain storage has become more important. And keeping grain from heating or spoiling is more complicated than it would seem. “The chance of spoilage really depends on two things. It’s both temperature and moisture,” said Lorne Grieger, the Prairie Agriculture Machinery Institute (PAMI) vice president for Manitoba […] Read more

GFM Network News

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U.S. livestock: Cattle slip back, hogs gain

Tag Archives grain storage

Avoid entrapment incidents with proper grain storage

USDA won’t survey for volume of grain lost to March floods

Our last minute grain storage solution

On-farm storage and canola grain quality

Get the most from your grain bags

Russia to boost grain transport subsidies in 2018

China to subsidize grain transportation, storage

Wheat storage a winner, says analyst

CHS sells stake in Bridgeland input venture to UFA

Safer grain storage with automation?

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