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The cycle of convection currents in bin-stored grain when ambient air outside the bin is cold and the grain is warm.

Snuffing out grain storage problems before they begin

Grain is an excellent insulator that can hold warmth and moisture, so management is key

By Canadian Grain Commission July 24, 2023

Nobody wants to deal with heating, spoiling grain, so it’s important to monitor grain temperature and keep stored grain cool and dry by regular aeration or turning. High moisture and warm temperatures in grain allow for rapid growth of insects, fungi and possible production of mycotoxins. Why it matters: All the best field practices in

Crops, Equipment, Machinery, Other

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

Have a plan before you climb that ladder and enter a bin.

News

Grain bin safety starts with a plan

A few key points can improve safety when you have to enter a bin

By Canadian Agricultural Safety Association Release July 14, 2023

Every year, several Canadian farmers and workers suffocate in grain bins. These deaths are preventable. People can become caught or trapped in grain bins in three different ways: Moving or flowing grain is involved in all three. When working with grain – loading it, unloading it and moving it from bin to bin – farmers

A lot of the pre-harvest safety checks are the same tasks you should take to prevent spoilage, says farm safety expert Robert Gobeil.

Markets

Be safe and profitable when storing grain

Best practices for safety and preventing spoilage in bins frequently cross over, says safety expert

By Jeff Melchior July 26, 2022

Glacier FarmMedia – The pre-harvest season is a good time to think about best practices around grain bin safety. Sounds like one more set of things to do on top of about a million others, right? Not necessarily, said a farm safety specialist. Those already taking action to minimize grain spoilage are also eliminating safety

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

A grain storage bin lay on a gravel road near Litchfield, Nebraska, about 230 km west of Lincoln, after high winds swept across the U.S. Great Plains and upper Midwest, in this still image from a social media video. (Kevin Fulton image via Reuters)

Crops, Weather

Dust storm, hurricane-force winds tear across U.S. upper Midwest

By Christopher Walljasper, GFM Network News, P.J. Huffstutter May 14, 2022

Chicago | Reuters — Hurricane-force winds tore across the U.S. upper Midwest Thursday evening, sending walls of dust across cities and rural towns, causing widespread property damage and killing at least two people. Straight-line winds up to 170 km/h reached from Kansas to Wisconsin, pushing waves of farmland topsoil across the horizon and plunging communities

Grain bins can be a dangerous location and safety precautions are very important.

News

Don’t be complacent around grain storage hazards

The list of dangers is very long, and it includes people who aren’t properly trained

By Matt McIntosh October 26, 2021

Glacier FarmMedia – There’s a plethora of hazards associated with storing and moving grain, and farm safety expert Robert Gobeil had a long list during a recent online presentation. Those entering a storage area containing a grain mass can be sucked under flowing grain, trapped by avalanching grain, and fall through crusted or bridged grain

Better bin monitoring data is key to better drying and that, in turn, could allow Prairie farmers to start harvest a week or two earlier, says Chandra Singh, an expert in wireless sensor technology for grain bins.

Crops, News

Better grain bin sensors could put you in the combine a week earlier

The key to an earlier start is being able to successfully dry down higher-moisture grain

By Jeff Melchior July 28, 2021

To some, new research on wireless sensors and automated fans for grain bins may seem like just another technical study. But there’s big stakes in play — an opportunity to move up harvest by a week or even two, says Chandra Singh. “When I joined Lethbridge College in 2019 there was a very early snow

Rob Gobeil of the Canadian Agricultural Safety Association demonstrates the risk of grain entrapment.

Farmit Manitoba, News, Other

Unpacking the dangers around bin entrapment

Forays to the inside of a grain bin can quickly turn tragic

By Don Norman September 8, 2020

In 2015, seven people died in grain bin entrapment accidents. That was a spike over an average year, accounting for a significant number of the deaths reported in the decade before. According to the Canadian Agricultural Injury Reporting program, 30 people died from grain or silage asphyxiation between 2006 and 2015. It had always been

Farmit Manitoba, News, Other

Grain bins have regulatory, safety requirements

Farm safety experts say farms, even small family-run operations, are workplaces and are regulated accordingly

By Geralyn Wichers August 17, 2020

Farm safety experts are reminding producers that grain bins are ‘confined spaces’ — a term that has regulatory and safety implications. “Fatalities occur regularly across the Prairie provinces in agricultural settings specific to confined spaces,” said Marc Watt, a paramedic turned safety adviser at Elite Safety Training in Brandon. Yet, he said, farms often operate

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