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lots of grain in bags

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r.w.b.

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scoular pittsburg ,kansas
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. last year very little on the ground .very dry here. this year we got rain. tuesday i filled em up with milo
glad to see big bags full. about 40 plus acres of grain in bags
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Are those the 10 foot diameter bags a couple hundred feet long or are they bigger? I know they make them in sizes that big not sure if they make them larger or not.
 
I am fascinated by that!!!

Raining here in Ohio this morning so I flew over to get some photos of that operation. There have been some changes at that place in the last 10 years.

Here are some photos from space. The red rectangle is about 1 1/4 acre in size, for reference. Dates are at the bottom of the photos and the top left corner. The image from yesteday is not here.


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For size reference, those red lines are about 40 feet and 18 feet long. I measure those bags to be about 480 long!!! is that right? WOW!!!! Takes lots of those trucks to fill those bags.


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Seriously, how long does it take to fill one of those bags?
 
Appears they must handle that grain multiple times to load it onto railcars. Am I not seeing a manner to load from the piles? gobble
 
(quoted from post at 06:46:49 12/01/23) Appears they must handle that grain multiple times to load it onto railcars. Am I not seeing a manner to load from the piles? gobble
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A lot of those bags here too in the fields. Most that use bags also have an "extractor" which is a dedicated piece of machinery specifically for moving the grain out of bags onto the truck. My neighbour powers his with an 830 Case sometimes. I also see some bags with holes from ravens, racoons and deer.
 
(quoted from post at 10:46:49 12/01/23) Appears they must handle that grain multiple times to load it onto railcars. Am I not seeing a manner to load from the piles? gobble
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Looks like the rail spur and even the line going by have been removed.
 
I can see using them for grain being stored at high moisture like fed to cattle. For regular storage I would think the spoilage loss with the cost of the bag and equipment would pay bins off pretty fast. OF course it would take quite a bin to hold that kind of volume. Still all in all I would think bins would reign in the end.
 
active rail spur. the loader has a auger simular to a snow blower with an auger to go to truck. and the bagger has a conveyer that our hoppers feed. it pushes tractor as it fills. we can dump 1 hopper not move truck but move for second hopper. about half the grain will be shipped via truck rest by rail.
bags are about 10 - 12 foot wide n some might be over 200 foot long. yesterday some brite person drove in too narrow a sopt n ripped 1 bag a good 50 ft. as i was pulling up to dump rear hopper seen guys running n seen why
 
If the grain is dry when it goes into the bag there's no more spoilage loss than from a bin.

Welker Farms put wheat in bags a couple years ago if you want to see some videos on it.

There's a machine that empties the bag and rolls the plastic up on a spool. As I recall there was remarkably little waste, as compared to a silage bag that's emptied with a skidsteer.
 


Go on You Tube to Fast AG. That is Tony Fast in Montana East of the Welkers. He uses some bags and has videos of both filling and unloading them. Both he and the Welkers have been installing more bins, but the volume of the crop is not the same every year, Ya Know??
 
Down here where a BTO is maybe 10k mostly leased acreage, he uses bags for chlpped forage....corn in the tassle stage (best I can tell) cut green and stored in the bags. Rumor has it that the bag prevents the crop from being exposed to oxygen and that preserves it for winter time feeding. Like the ones being discussed here, it is much better for them than huge open spaced, concrete floored, barns, in cost, loading and unloading/shipping efforts......plus works with varying crop volumes.
 
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