Flexi - Grain Storage   A brief history of grain bagging   What does it mean? 20 powerful reasons why it can help you A word about bag quality   Guiding principles for storing grain in plastic bags   R-9 bagger R-10 bagger EA-350 unloader EA-250 unloader   Richiger S.A.   U.S.A. Canada Australia New Zealand Italy Ukraine   Ask us what you need to know             Flexi-Grain Storage means that your grain is stored on-farm, and keeping a hard-earned harvest in your own premises means taking direct control of your grain inventory, with no third party intervention and no storage, loading or unloading fees to pay.             Flexi-Grain Storage helps you limit costly and time-consuming trips to commercial grain facilities. Avoid expensive short freight runs from field to silo plants. Instead, set aside a tract of land on your property, prepare it adequately (See General guidelines for storing grains in plastic bags), and when harvest time arrives go to the no-fuss solution, unloading in a jiffy from grain cart or truck into bags.               Flexi-Grain Storage gives you the extra space you need when a bumper crop comes in and commercial storage space is either unavailable or scarce and expensive.               Flexi-Grain Storage allows you to bag your crop with no delay, as soon as you haul it in from the field. With the R-9 bagger's loading rate of approximately 250 tons per hour (about 9,800 bushels of corn/hour) and the R-10 bagger's loading rate of approximately 300 tons per hour (about 11,800 bushels of corn/hour), the crop is put away inside the bag as fast as grain cart or truck can deliver it.               Flexi-Grain Storagefurthermore allows you to easily and efficiently discharge the grain from the bags and load it on trucks with the EA-250 unloader, which delivers at a rate of about 250 tons/hour (9,800 bushels/hour), or the EA-350 unloader with a rate of about 300 tons/hour (11,800 bushels/hour). Not only do these work rates exceed the capabilities of the largest pneumatic grain conveyors; these unloaders can accomplish the task starting with a 60 HP tractor and a single operator manning the whole operation. Add to this performance an inexpensive maintenance schedule far simpler than that required by a vacuum machine, and you have an unbeatable combination. This translates to huge savings in operating expenses.             Flexi-Grain Storagelets you bag your grain even if moisture levels slightly exceed base moisture level regarded as safe for storing grain in bins. It is generally considered that 2 or 3 percentage points over standard moisture levels are acceptable for grain that is to be bagged. It has also been shown that very high moisture percentages that will not permit grain to be kept in bins at all, can in fact be stored in bags for short periods of time. Besides humidity, in storage there is an interaction of other factors such as ambient temperature. Therefore it is important to systematically monitor a bag’s contents, especially when moisture and/or temperature indicators are high, in order to take preemptive action (i.e., extracting the grain from the bag or providing shade to lower the temperature inside the bag) if any signal of incipient deterioration is detected. In any event, when grain is stored at high moisture levels it should be dried as soon as possible after withdrawal from the bag because once aerobic conditions have been reestablished, dormant microorganisms can become active (See General guidelines for storing grains in plastic bags).               Flexi-Grain Storage is economical. A bag with a 9 ft. (2.7 meter) diameter and a length of 200 ft. (60 meters) is able to hold from 200 to 220 tons of grain depending on the crop. A 200 ft. bag with a 10 ft. (3 meter) diameter can hold from 250 to 270 tons. And longer lengths will hold proportionately more. The cost of the plastic bags can be roughly estimated to run from five to seven cents (US$ 0.05 to 0.07) per bushel of corn, or from US$ 2 to US$ 2.75 per ton of grain.               Flexi-Grain Storage makes you forget about seasonal rushes and extra costs. Harvest season causes a peak demand of services. Road freight, bulk grain services, grain drying and processing; all of these can be harder to come by and costlier at this time of the year. Of course some of these services will be required at some time in future: the grain will have to be transported and it will probably require drying, but this can be planned and done with enough time, when demand has subsided and costs have come down.               Flexi-Grain Storage is a proven system that has grown steadily every year since its introduction. In Argentina, one of the important grain producing countries of the world, with a climate range and agricultural techniques that are similar to those in countries such as the U.S.A., Canada and Australia, the system has been widely tested for years and has gained widespread acceptance. The use of grain bags there has increased steadily every year since their introduction, and in the 2009/2010 campaign roughly half of the country’s harvest of 95 million tons of grain is being stored in bags (See An introduction to the grain bag concept).               Flexi-Grain Storageas an added bonus is a suitable technique for storing all kinds of pelleted materials such as cattle feed and fertilizers in grain bags.             Flexi-Grain Storageis ultimately a financial instrument that gives you more effective control of your grain resources. Being able to stock your grain on-farm for the time required will maximize your profits as you sell your crop when market prices are at their highest.           previous     www.richiger.com   duxdesign.com.ar