Why Do Farmers Build Grain Bins?
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- You've more than likely seen grain bins driving through the countryside or a rural area, but have you ever wondered why farmers build these grain bins? In today's video, I explain the various benefits, cost savings, and efficiencies farmers receive with the investment of grain bins on their farms. Grain bins, although simple in design, serve a very important role on the farm and can help improve the farm's bottom line.
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Matthias, aka HiTech Farmer, is a 5th generation family farmer from Southwest Minnesota who promotes agriculture by capturing it through the lens of a camera, one video at a time. Passionate about emerging farm technologies and the benefits of 21st-century precision agriculture tools, such as farm equipment, GPS, and autonomous tractors, Matthias is determined to bring new methods into his operation. These methods can improve his farm's efficiency and sustainability into the future. Learning from his parents' (Mike and Dawn) work ethic, Matthias sees every day as an opportunity to educate and entertain about the daily triumphs and challenges his farm faces, whether technology-related or not. His mission is to share his enthusiasm and knowledge of agriculture as he embarks on what it means to be a farmer in the modern era.
My friend great informative video. Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Great Video and Informative 👍
Thanks 👍
I am ready for your next video to come out 😉
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I think that your videos are extremely informative and helpful. You must take a lot of time and effort to plan and edit them so that are so good! Thank you!
Thanks Chris!
Great video, very informative thanks. In our area I would guess 80 % of the new bins are now hopper bottom. You don’t see many on the American channels at all. I am guessing corn takes up a lot of room so bins have to be bigger overall. Here they mainly grow wheat, oats, barley, canola, flax, mustard and lentils so the super huge bins are not needed as much. Either that or our family farms are smaller with less land so again large storage bins are not needed as much. Having said that it is not uncommon to see 40+ 6400 bushel hopper bottomed bins lined up on some farms.
Wow that would be slick to have all hopper bottom bins. No more shoveling and moving augers into bins...sign me up! Yeah, in America you don't see many large cone bottom bins and most are just used as a "wet bin" so the grain flows out better. If the cone bottom option wasn't so expensive it would definitely be a nice thing to have and save a lot of labor
A good video. I can see you spent a lot of time writing and editing it! Do you have a scale to weigh at the farm to weight the corn/beans?
Appreciate it! We do not have a scale, a decent scale with installation would cost about 100k
Very nice transition into your "outro" at the end. Can you at some point make a more detailed video about how the corn drier works? is it just air or heated, does it completely fill up or is the corn floating in there, do you use electric driers like at some restrooms or some kind of gas burner, why is this not going off like a huge popcorn maker, how much do you get in there, how long does it need to dry, how do you prep it / clean it between the crops, is it a constant flow or fill up and remove over and over again,...? so many questions. :)
Thanks for the comment and questions! Yes, we will be servicing it soon for harvest preparations, so I'll be sure to highlight some of your questions
love your vids
Appreciate it!
Grain storage costs can add up fast! Like you said, $.05/mth x 8 months = $.40/bushel. Take that on 200 bpa corn, it’s $80/acre in storage costs 😮
Exactly, take that times 40 years of farming and you get an impressive amount of money spent on just grain storage!
What those people are saying is why don't You just sell your grain right off the combine? Why would you want to wait for 8 or 9 months? You can use puts or calls on grain that has already been delivered.
Correct, but you will lose out on any basis appreciation and the cost savings of drying/blending
A lady I know who moved to Minnesota from Washington State, kept wanting to call grain bin silos,, while explaining to her that most of the time cattle food crops are put in there to "ensile" or ferment,, , I tried to set her straight but she's stubborn..
Haha, yes different. Yet they can serve the same purpose
A decade of financial gains achieved by holding out, were wiped out this year.
What are you referencing? The flooding?
Yep...im guilty too, a lot of corn and beans in the bin yet.
@@HiTech_Farmer no, I’m referring to financial gains achieved by having the ability to hold grain in your own bins and play the market. Anyone who has proclaimed a “ROI” on bins just gave back a decade of gains this year. I have an amazing handling and bin system myself, not saying it’s a bad thing. But as with everything in farming, there are no silver bullets, and stacked promises of “ROI” are a house of cards just waiting to be blown over.
Gotcha, yes very true. As one person told me once, bins are structures of indecision. Often time's I try to focus on having a return to storage space and play the futures market separate.