Harvest Photos

[aussie_cowgirl]

Hi all. Just thought I'd share some photos of the grain collection site where I work over summer.

This first one you can see last years grain tarped. There was a lot of rain so the feed grade wheat is still there from last year (That bulk head has about 25000 tonnes in it. This year screenings are a bit high so we have a bit of feed barley so far but a lot is going malt grade which is good news. I took the first wheat on sunday and canola is coming in steadily.

Here is 2 of the 4 open bulk heads we have. Each hold 25000 tonnes.

The grain cleaners back dropped by a really nice sky. I took that from the top of the feed barley stack as we pulled the tarp onto it.

Bit blurry. I'm standing on top of the barley stack again. You can see one of the sheds where we put wheat and canola.

The tarped feed barley again and the shed where we put the malt barley

 

[Jogeephus]

That is neat. Never seen anything like it. Thanks.

 

[aussie_cowgirl]

That is neat. Never seen anything like it. Thanks.

You guys don't have something similar?

 

[Auburn_Ag]

Pretty neat pictures, thanks for sharing.

 

[alacattleman]

That is neat. Never seen anything like it. Thanks.

You guys don't have something similar?

nothing like that here,,, most of ours is corn soybeans , and cotton in my area very little wheat grown in the southeast and no one i know raises barly ..course ill admit theres other areas beside alabama ;-)

 

[aussie_cowgirl]

That is neat. Never seen anything like it. Thanks.

You guys don't have something similar?

nothing like that here,,, most of ours is corn soybeans , and cotton in my area very little wheat grown in the southeast and no one i know raises barly ..course ill admit theres other areas beside alabama ;-)

Oh wow ok. Theres maybe 100 or more sites around the south west of west aus like this and what we take (varieeties/grades/ species) depends on what the farmers grow.

So how do you guys store or sell those crops?

 

[alacattleman]

silos and grain bins.. we have small silage pits that are simular

 

[Jogeephus]

We use, silos, barns and some huge globe-like storage bins. Our humidity is such that I don't think your kind of setup would work well.

 

[larryshoat]

What you have in this photo is more like what we use.

That pile system is impressive, but as Jogee said wouldn't work as well in our climate. Cool pics, Thanks!

Larry

 

[john250]

Is there a railroad that isn't shown? How does that grain get marketed?

In a high yield year, the US corn belt will store a part of the crop in piles similar to yours, but spoilage is a problem. I've seen corn piled in an old unused airplane hangar. They didn't have anything as sophisticated as your setup, just a 70 foot grain auger.

 

[aussie_cowgirl]

Is there a railroad that isn't shown? How does that grain get marketed?

In a high yield year, the US corn belt will store a part of the crop in piles similar to yours, but spoilage is a problem. I've seen corn piled in an old unused airplane hangar. They didn't have anything as sophisticated as your setup, just a 70 foot grain auger.

Well the co-operative company that buys it deals with the marketing. So farmers get paid when they deliver and the grain is stored until it's needed for local or export. Obviously it wouldn't be as much as if they did it themselves, but the convenience is having it stored, marketed and instant payment for their produce.

As far as spoiling goes if the grain gets wet there can be problems which is why tarping is kept up to date, as we fill the bulk head tarping contractors come out and extend the tarp. And the IC constantly checks the weather radar and if it looks like rain us poor suckers have to pull the tarp over it.

Some sites have rail road points but ours doesn't. When they out load they move it via trucks. Most of them are triples so they carry a pretty good amount. Farmers also bring it to us via trucks as well.