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Flexi-Grain Storage
helps you limit costly and time-consuming trips to third-party
grain handling facilities. Avoid expensive short freight
runs from field to silo plants. Instead, set aside a tract
of land in your own grounds, prepare it adequately (See
General guidelines for storing grains in plastic bags),
and when harvest day arrives, go ahead with the bag filling
operation, speedily and efficiently unloading from the
grain wagons directly into the R-9
bagger. |
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Flexi-Grain
Storage gives you the extra capacity that you
require when a bumper crop comes in and commercial storage
space is either unavailable or scarce and expensive. |
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Flexi-Grain Storage
allows you to bag your crop as soon as you haul it in
from the field, with minimum delays. With a loading rate
of approximately 240 tons per hour (approx. 9,450 bushels/corn
per hour), the R-9
bagger puts away the grain inside the bag as fast
as you can feed the hopper. |
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Flexi-Grain Storage
furthermore allows you to easily and efficiently discharge
the grain from the bags and load it on trucks with the
EA-180 unloader,
which delivers at a rate of 180 tons/hour (approx. 7,080
bushels/corn per hour). Not only does this rate of work
exceed the capabilities of the largest pneumatic grain
conveyors, but also the EA-180 unloader accomplishes the
task powered by just 70 HP and only one operator manning
the whole operation. Add to this performance a maintenance
schedule far simpler and less expensive than the upkeep
required by a vacuum machine, and you have an unbeatable
combination. This translates to huge savings in your operating
expenses. |
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Flexi-Grain Storage
lets you bag your grain even if moisture levels slightly
exceed base moisture level regarded as safe for storing
grain in bins. It is generally considered that 2 or 3
percentage points over standard moisture levels is within
acceptable range when bagging. Nevertheless there is an
interaction of other factors, mainly ambient temperature,
that can affect the results, so it is important to systematically
monitor a bag’s contents, specially so when moisture
and/or temperature indicators are high, in order to take
preemptive action (i.e., extracting the grain from the
bag or providing shade to lower temperature inside bag)
should any signal of incipient deterioration be detected.
In any event, when grain is stored at high moisture levels
it should be dried as soon as possible after withdrawal
from the bag because once aerobic conditions have been
reestablished, previously dormant microorganisms can quite
rapidly cause damage (See
General guidelines for storing grains in plastic bags).
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Flexi-Grain Storage
is economical. A typical bag with a 9 ft. (3 meter) diameter
and a length of 200 ft. (60 meters) is able to hold from
200 to 220 tons of grain depending on variety. The cost
of the plastic bags can be estimated to run from five
to seven cents (US$ 0.05 to 0.07) per bushel of corn,
or from US$ 2 to US$ 2.75 per ton of grain. |
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Flexi-Grain Storage
makes you forget about seasonal rushes and over costs.
Harvest season causes a peak demand of services. Road
freight, handling in commercial bins, grain drying processing;
all of these are hard to come by and usually costlier
at this time of the year. Of course you will eventually
use some of these services: the grain will be transported
at some time in the future and it will probably require
drying, but this can be planned and done with enough time,
when demand has subsided and costs have come down. |
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Flexi-Grain Storage
is a proven system that has grown steadily and increased
in recognition every year since its introduction. In Argentina,
one of the important grain producing countries of the
world, with a climate range and agricultural techniques
that are similar to those found in countries such as the
U.S.A., Canada and Australia, the system enjoys widespread
acceptance. In the year 2007, roughly one third of the
country’s harvest of 97 million tons of grain is
being stored in bags (See
An introduction to the grain bag concept). |
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Flexi-Grain
Storage is ultimately a financial instrument
that gives you more effective control of your grain resources.
Being able to stock up your grain on-farm for the space
of time that may be required will maximize your profits
as you sell your crop when the market commands the highest
prices. |
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