bins Archives - Manitoba Co-operator

High-tech solutions bring bin management into focus

It's as simple as cooling the grain -- and as complex as managing Mother Nature

By Gord Gilmour July 20, 2023

Managing stored grain isn’t complex but farmers do need a clear picture of what’s happening in the bin. Wayne Clews, of Clews Storage Management, says many farmers just guess and run fans as a safeguard measure — but that can work counter to their own best interests. Rather than incrementally reducing the temperature of grain

Crops

Large bins may be too large when it comes to drying canola

Bins hold a lot more these days -- and that makes it challenging to push air through small seeds, such as canola

By Jeff Melchior July 19, 2022

When is a grain bin too big to allow for proper drying? When it comes to canola, leading researchers may now have an idea. The Prairie Agriculture Machinery Institute (PAMI) found that commonly used conditioning fans stall when canola is piled too high in a tall grain bin. Adding an extra fan in parallel didn’t

U.S. President Donald Trump participates in a disaster recovery briefing following last week’s severe windstorm, at the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids on Aug. 18, 2020. (Photo: Reuters/Tom Brenner)

Crops, Weather

Trump visits Iowa as officials warn storm destroyed corn crops

By GFM Network News August 19, 2020

Cedar Rapids | Reuters — U.S. lawmakers and state officials from Iowa said on Tuesday that much of the state’s corn crop will not be harvested following a fierce windstorm last week, as President Donald Trump visited to review the damage. The destruction from the Aug. 10 derecho storm compounded troubles for a U.S. agricultural

Crops, Weather

Monday’s storm hit an estimated 37.7 million acres in U.S. Midwest

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek August 14, 2020

Chicago | Reuters — A storm packing hurricane-force winds on Monday impacted 37.7 million acres of farmland across the Midwest, including 14 million in Iowa, the Iowa Soybean Association said on Friday, citing estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The toll from the derecho storm has worsened as farmers and grain handlers have spent

Firefighters training for a grain rescue. (Casa-acsa.ca)

Crops, Other

Donation offers up more equipment for grain emergencies

Fire departments first must complete CASA training course

By GFM Network News, Gfm Staff July 23, 2020

Corteva AgriScience Canada is donating equipment that’s expected to help fire departments across the country save farmers’ lives. The company’s funding will purchase GSI RES-Q-TUBE and Haul-ALL pencil augers for eligible fire departments that have taken part in BeGrainSafe training put on by the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association (CASA). The GSI RES-Q-TUBE is a rescue

Severe flooding in the U.S. Midwest may weigh on plantable acreage this spring for producers such as Justin Mensik, a corn and soybean grower shown here March 22, 2019 at his farm at Morse Bluff, Neb., about 70 km west of Omaha. (Photo: Reuters/Humeyra Pamuk)

Crops, Weather

USDA won’t survey for volume of grain lost to March floods

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen April 25, 2019

Chicago | Reuters — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s statistical arm will not collect data on the volume of harvested grain lost when farms from the Dakotas to Missouri were hit by flooding in March that burst grain storage bins, a government official said on Tuesday. However, figures in USDA’s regular quarterly stocks report for

Crops

Grain equipment firm AGI buys into dryer market

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 5, 2017

The Winnipeg parent firm for grain bin, auger and conveyor brands such as Westeel, Twister, Westfield, Wheatheart and Batco has bought its way into the grain dryer and stationary grain handling businesses. Ag Growth International (AGI) announced Tuesday it has bought up all shares in a Nebraska-based competitor, Global Industries, for US$100 million — a

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Soybeans mixed on doubts over Chinese demand

Tyson Foods to close U.S. beef plant as cattle supplies dwindle

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures dip as Brazilian beef tariffs lifted

Tag Archives bins

High-tech solutions bring bin management into focus

Large bins may be too large when it comes to drying canola

Trump visits Iowa as officials warn storm destroyed corn crops

Monday’s storm hit an estimated 37.7 million acres in U.S. Midwest

Donation offers up more equipment for grain emergencies

USDA won’t survey for volume of grain lost to March floods

Grain equipment firm AGI buys into dryer market

AgCanadaTV

AGCanadaTV: In case you missed it; your national ag news recap for Sept. 5, 2025

Cyber-Savvy Farmer

Latest Market News