Grain Bags



Every year grain producers are subject to adverse weather conditions that either delay or postpone harvest. During wet years, the storage of tough grain (>15% moisture) can lead to spoilage when stored in a conventional grain storage bin. This spoilage translates into a loss of palatability or feed refusal by livestock.

Over the last decade new technology has allowed for the invention and acceptance of the grain bagging which provides grain producers and grain companies with:

  • a temporary, economical storage site for their dry grain crop (12 - 15% moisture)
  • a low cost per bushel
  • an excellent, reliable system for the ensilage and storage of high moisture grain crops (>18% moisture)

Since grain bagging creates an oxygen deprived environment, grain is stored in a constant environment. The risks of grain heating is lowered (if not eliminated) because the catalyst that starts heating -- oxygen -- is deprived.

The Grain Bagging system provides:

  • the ability to start harvest earlier
  • maximum use of equipment through longer harvest days
  • less dependence on weather
  • less grain dust during harvest and feeding
  • reduced losses
  • collection of weed seed before shattering
  • the ability to harvest green patches
  • the ability to preserve the grain until a more convenient time is available for the final delivery, processing or handling of the grain

See Suggestions for Use of Grain Bags for helpful tips about the use and maintenance of grain bags.
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See Use of Chemical around Grain Bags for technical information about chemical control of rodents and weed growth around grain bags.
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