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 ...

Properly managing grain in storage is crucial for maintaining its quality, preventing spoilage and ensuring that it remains safe for consumption.

If you’re one of the many farmers storing grain on-farm to hold out for better prices, make sure you don’t fall in the out-of-sight, out-of-mind trap. One misstep could be the difference between ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Iowa farmer Karl Fox is drowning in corn. Reluctant to sell his harvest at today's rock-bottom prices, he has stuffed storage bins at his property full and left more corn piled on ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. - Deciding whether to store or sell grain is a tough call for Upper Midwest farmers - and one that too many may not be getting right, Frayne Olson said. "I'm really, really concerned ...

Ely’s grain elevator in Guide Rock, Nebraska, is shown on Oct. 10, 2025. The elevator has a capacity of over 1 million bushels across 15 bins, two flat storage buildings and a new temporary bunker.

To understand one of the main reasons why wheat producers are having such a tough time, talk to Oklahoma cattle feeder Hitch Enterprises Inc. The closely held company has the capacity to feed 90,000 ...

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 ...

To handle more grain and avoid high storage costs, Cargill unveils the "Big Bin" model, a rail-side terminal with maximum space and efficiency. John MacMillan, Jr., an innovative businessman who ...

A near-record harvest, low crop prices and a shortage of storage space are changing the way some farmers store their crops. Across Minnesota and elsewhere, many growers are stuffing corn, wheat and ...

ALEXANDRIA - A move to store Egypt's wheat in state-of-the-art warehouses monitored by a control center in Cairo could end losses from theft and waste, cutting its $3 billion bread subsidy bill, an ...

But first, Rich had to find a way to mill the grain into flour. She considered doing it herself, but was too busy opening a ...