Just an idea I had this morning over coffee, but does anyone think there would be/is a demand for a grain cleaning business? I'm thinking one of those portable grain cleaners, mounted on a pickup, as to be mobile. Remove chaff, fines, dirt, etc. from grain before going to the dryer, before storage, when loading a wagon/semi to ship out, or run bin-run seed through before filling the drill. I don't think the cleaners are terribly expensive, so folks would probably buy their own to clean their grain than hire someone else to come do it. Like I said, just an idea I had. Figure some on here would have some insight on this.
- Thread starter Rich Iowa
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wilson ind
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back when i was young local fellow made his living cleaning seed wheat and beans.
Bruce from Can.
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- Location
- Woodville, Ontario, Canada
You are just the guy I am looking for. I need about 5 ton cleaned for spring planting, no one comes to your farm around here, you take the grain to them. But I am sure Iowa is just to far away, even for a cash paying customer. Bruce
In corn and bean country it is pretty much a thing of the past.
Of course hybred corn did away with planting out of the bin. Roundup tech agreements did away with bin run soybeans.
Not sure what the situation is with wheat.
Graing going into the dryer isn't for the comercial person. I have a rotary grain cleaner and haven't used it in better than 10 years. It won't come close to keeping up with my auger now anyway. For someone doing this for hire not sure how you can make that work unless you were following a commercial harvestor.
jm2cw
jt
Of course hybred corn did away with planting out of the bin. Roundup tech agreements did away with bin run soybeans.
Not sure what the situation is with wheat.
Graing going into the dryer isn't for the comercial person. I have a rotary grain cleaner and haven't used it in better than 10 years. It won't come close to keeping up with my auger now anyway. For someone doing this for hire not sure how you can make that work unless you were following a commercial harvestor.
jm2cw
jt
Super Steve
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guy around here has it all setup on a gooseneck trailer and comes to you, he cleans it, treats it and weighs it all on the spot
Local guy does that with a home made cleaner mounted on an F350. Dad started the business decades ago by taking over from another. He added a dump weigher from a threshing machine to measure bushels. Does only small grain....lots of dairy nearby yet, so farmers seed oats/barley as nurse crop for alfalfa. Some customers clean hundreds of bushels each year, some even a thousand for sales to others. Neighbors bring their gravity boxes on cleaning day.
rockyridgefarm
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Look up Moe Parr. He does (or maybe used to do) it....
Tom OConnor
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Rich,
If you would be interested I have a portable Neco Grain cleaner that you tow behind a pickup that is a complete rotary unit with its own eight inch loading auger and four inch screening auger that is all electric. If I remember correctly it is in the 2500 bushel per hour capacity that I use to use to screen non GMO soybeans with before I put them in storage. Haven't used it in a long time but it always worked great and did a good job. Tom 810 655 4859
If you would be interested I have a portable Neco Grain cleaner that you tow behind a pickup that is a complete rotary unit with its own eight inch loading auger and four inch screening auger that is all electric. If I remember correctly it is in the 2500 bushel per hour capacity that I use to use to screen non GMO soybeans with before I put them in storage. Haven't used it in a long time but it always worked great and did a good job. Tom 810 655 4859
Formerly PaMike
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Here in Pa there is a guy that has two mobile trucks to do on the farm cleaning. He is often booked a month out. A lot of cover crops are used here so cleaning is in demand. He has a diesel generator that runs a hydraulic power unit. Has a swing out auger that goes under the bin wagon. He has a bag filler/scale setup and a bag sewer. He can fill and sew 1.5 bushel bags as fast as you can grab them and throw them on a skid... Its a slick setup.
Adirondack case guy
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The uncles here at Clinton Camp Farm sell oat seed. We built a hopper on to the feeder house and auger the oats from the bin into the 2166 combine, with the wind turned up and concaves wide open, and then unload the bin into a gravity wagon and then bag them for sale. Tried SONCO rotary grain cleaner, but was really slow.
Loren, the Acg.
Loren, the Acg.
One thing, if you choose to "clean seed" monsanto will be on you like white on rice. Anyone cleaning seed is likely wanting to use that seed to plant, monsanto will prosecute you for "stealing" their gmo seed, even if they never bought monsanto seed, as long as their gmo has contaminated their field from the neighbors they will shut you down, fine you, and force them to BUY their seed. It's a bunch of crap, but since they have bought and paid for all of the government, no one has a choice anymore.
There are a whole lot of issues on that patent running out deal, I'd be real careful there.
A southern university is selling a patent free rup soybean this year, so its coming about, but there is a stack of lawyers and paperwork to wade through if you want to go it on your own.....
Locally, would be a tough business to get into; mostly corn and soybeans here, those of us planting 10 acres of oats or alfalfa or wheat have our own old fanning mill or just buy 30 bags of seed; and those big enough to want a service might be in the many 100 bu range that you'd be hard pressed to serve in a timely fashion. Very small market 'here' now a days.
Paul
A southern university is selling a patent free rup soybean this year, so its coming about, but there is a stack of lawyers and paperwork to wade through if you want to go it on your own.....
Locally, would be a tough business to get into; mostly corn and soybeans here, those of us planting 10 acres of oats or alfalfa or wheat have our own old fanning mill or just buy 30 bags of seed; and those big enough to want a service might be in the many 100 bu range that you'd be hard pressed to serve in a timely fashion. Very small market 'here' now a days.
Paul
T in NE
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- Cambridge, Nebraska
The county has a mobile unit but it takes nearly all day to set up and run 1000 bushel through. We started hauling seed wheat 45 minutes each way, he can clean 1000 bushel an hour. Oats are a little slower. And does a better job. Started out as a hobby but today it is all his income. Cleans small grains in summer and plays in the desert all winter. 4 wheel off road just did a story on his buggy.
1948CaseVAI
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It is a bit premature for an individual to tell those boys from Monsanto that their patent is no good. The lawyers are not yet finished.
Would never have worked around here. Local grain elevators did the cleaning. That is if you did not own a Clipper fanning mill. The one elevator (don't know if still do) used to do custom cleaning between times they did their own certified seed. Had 2 of the biggest Clipper cleaners ever made, each one was ysed for different crops so as to not contaminate seed. Also had a debucker for clover seed.
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