You’re familiar with routine maintenance on grain bins—activities that take about a half an hour—but are you aware of other major problems to watch? While checking for these problems, and subsequently ...

If grain bins and handling equipment were not sanitized prior to grain fill and the grain was moved to storage without receiving a preventative insecticide application, insect infestations can develop ...

A full set of cables is not necessary for farmers to gain value.

Grain bin entrapments are so common that some rural fire departments have specially trained teams and customized equipment to rescue victims. When... Why Grain Storage Bin Rescues Are Risky And ...

Proper storage allows producers to wait for optimal market conditions instead of selling at harvest-time lows ...

An Iowa farmer walks past damaged grain bins following a 2020 derecho. Farmers across the Midwest have seen their grain bins destroyed or damaged in recent years by tornadoes, derechos and other ...

Above: Purdue student in grain bin rescue simulator. I recently re-watched the 2016 video entitled, “Stop, Think, & Live!” a work about grain entrapment, produced by Posey County Farm Bureau, Inc., ...

Demand for grain bins is running high this season and windy, rainy and hot weather have created challenges for bin builders. The growing ethanol industry has fueled demand, bin builders say. Ethanol ...

June storms caused $100 million in damage to grain bins across the region, leaving farmers scrambling to rebuild storage before harvest. The June storms and tornadoes that swept through North Dakota ...

Grain bin damage on the Ron Heck farm near Perry, Iowa. Many farmers are scrambling to replace their on-farm storage that was damaged in last month's derecho winds across Iowa and Illinois. But some ...

Onsite facilities allow farmers to wait for a better price. Area farmers are building larger metal grain bins along country roads faster than ever to earn thousands of dollars more if they store their ...