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This will be my first year combining my corn, and I was planning on buying a shipping container to store the corn in. Will this be a good setup? Do I need to put a couple of vents in each end so air can move? Another thing I thought of was the heating and cooling of the metal may make it sweat inside rotting the corn. Have any of u guys ever tried this, I don't want to take a chance on ruining my crop. There are no conventional bins anywhere close. I should only have 1000 to 1200bu. Aprreciate the help, I'm very new to all this
 
I kept a small feed bin (110bu) on site for feeding and banked the rest at the local elevator. For the small amount your planning I check on banking it.
 
It should be dried first, do you have anyone around with a batch drier, or like around here you can sent the grain to the grain terrminal and have it dried and stored.
 
It must be below a certain moisture content. I do not know what that is for corn since I was a wheat grower. I recommend a perforated pipe down on the bottom so you can blow air with a fan. You can loose the whole thing if it is not dry enough.
 
I don't have access to a dryer, I always waited till the corn was 15% before picking it, and was planning on doing the same with the combine. So what I'm gathering from all this is that I should try to sell it straight out of the field and skip the container
 
My local grain dealer will let you store for 30 days free. Then you can either sell or pay storage until you want to sell or use.
 
Your corn will have to be under 15% to store it with out drying it. It would be much easier and less worry if you would haul it to the local elevator and store or sell it there. You don't have to sell it out of the field, you can store it there untill the price gets better (no quarantee of that happening). If the price stays the same, you would be money ahead to sell at harvest because then they only dry it down to 15%, if you store it there they want to dry it down to 13.5% and a minimum charge for handleing. Atleast that is what they do around here.
Brian
 
you cant store corn in a airtight container you need some kind of air circulation. a shipping container is air tight.
 
Back in the 60's and 70's, when smaller bins were common, you could buy a grain aireator to "screw" in from the top. The aireator consisted of a tube made from perforated metal, about 10' long and maybe 8" in diameter. It had a metal point with fins around the diameter in a screw fashion. Then on top was a fan that fit down over the tube, once you screwed it down into the grain. The tube had holes so you could stick a short piece of pipe throug it to help screw it down. The fan was electric. You would plug it in and leave it for a week or so. It did a pretty good job of airing out the grain.

They might be still available new, or maybe you could pick one up used.

Good luck, Gene
 
This is a msg that begs LOCATION! Southern states, maybe aeration is all you need. Northern states...drying facilities.
 
I'm in southestern Ky, London to be more specific 41mi north of Tn on I-75. The closest elevator is 140mi one way. My buyer will be one of the two local feed mills
 
Only 1000 bu, then get another wagon or two and leave it on the wagons. 15% corn will keep until spring alright, long as it is not warm when loading the wagons, can always screw in an aerator in the top of the loads for a few days.
 
It should get to 13% to keep so if you can combine at 15 or lower it would just take some air, depends the fall!
 
You could construct a bin out of the shipping box.....install a drying floor like a regular bin does, install some roof vents, and bolt on a aeriation fan under the floor.....and you have a portable grain bin.....go for it...
 
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