You want to sell high. So, farmers will watch the grain markets to try to anticipate the most favorable time to sell, to get the best per-bushel price they can.
Grain elevator operators charge farmers storage fees. The added expense means less of a profit for that harvest. Grain elevator operators can compile grains from multiple farms and broker larger bulk sales than individual farmers can, which can mean a quicker sale. It all comes down to each individual farming operation, which is, after all, a business. Fun fact: Grain elevators were invented in in Buffalo, N.
A: On one acre about the size of a football field , the amount of pesticide used is about the same as your morning cup of coffee. When cooking meats, safe internal temperatures should be: Poultry ground and cuts : degrees; other ground meats: degrees; beef, pork and lamb: degrees. There are four main types of sorghum: grain, forage, biomass and sweet.
Their most popular uses are: for food grain sorghum , as livestock feed forage sorghum , to produce bioenergy biomass sorghum , and as syrup sweet sorghum. Food Buzz. William Hespeler, in Niverville , Manitoba, constructed the first grain elevator, a wooden, silo-like building, in A more familiar form made its appearance in in Gretna, Manitoba, when Ogilvie Milling Company built a wooden, square, 25,bushel elevator.
While companies like Ogilvie preferred an elevator with a pyramidal roof and a centrally located pyramidal-roofed cupola, others opted for an offset cupola. Others chose a gable roof with a gable-roofed cupola. By the s, most companies were building the standard, or traditional, 30, to 40 bushel elevator with a gable roof and a gable-roofed cupola.
Elevators were typically 24 m high or higher. No other building dominated the skyline as did the elevator. Annexes, permanent and temporary, were built to add storage capacity.
Rectangular wood crib annexes, usually with a gable roof, were designed as permanent facilities. Most were constructed as separate buildings but, in the late s, some were adjoined to the elevator. Early crib annexes held approximately 30, to 35, bushels; those built in the s held 60, bushels. Another permanent type of annex was the twin elevator, an older, smaller elevator that was moved alongside a newer, larger elevator.
Many older elevators escaped demolition by being twinned in this way. The balloon annex, which appeared in the s, was designed as a temporary facility. A one-storey wood frame building, it was not as sturdy as a crib annex, and tended to sag after a time — hence the term "balloon. Its octagonal structure was also not as strong as other annex types and has largely disappeared from the landscape. A more recent annex type is the metal bin.
Typically holding 30, bushels, bins became common in the s. Not compartmentalized as are other annexes, metal bins are most cost effective for large volumes of a single type and quality of grain.
Elevators were constantly upgraded as new technologies were introduced. Original gasoline engines were replaced with electrical equipment; truck-dumping mechanisms were improved; larger scales and larger and longer movable loading spouts to facilitate the loading of freight cars were installed; wooden legs were replaced with metal ones; and new driveways to accommodate longer trucks were constructed. All were indicative of a way of life that revolved around prairie rail transportation. Consolidation of delivery points in the late s made the construction of larger facilities necessary.
Wood composite elevators incorporated annexes for a capacity of about , bushels. Their familiar design ensured that they blended into their communities. They were built until the mids. The first major change in elevator design came in the late s.
Experimenting with new designs and new materials, the Alberta Wheat Pool constructed a ,bushel, pre-cast concrete "Buffalo slope" elevator at Magrath, Alberta, in , followed in by a "Buffalo " built at Lyalta.
A 90,bushel steel elevator with two steel bins of 30, bushels each was built at Etzikom, Alberta, in the s. In the s, grain companies concentrated on building concrete silos designed as high capacity terminals.
Handling close to 50, tonnes, these behemoths can load a freight car in less than 10 minutes, ensuring that an entire train of 52 cars can be loaded in a single day. This capability means that the terminals have to be built far beyond town limits. Elevators are generally in small rural areas which is less distance for the farmer to haul the grain. It is easy to recognize the grain elevator.
It is sometimes the tallest building in town, between 70 to feet tall! The truck carrying the grain pulls into the local grain elevator and then stops on the scale at the elevator to be weighed. The operator takes a sample of the grain to test for the weight, moisture content and to check for any foreign materials present.
Foreign materials could consist of chewed up corn, stalks, weeds or trash. If the grain is too wet farmers have to pay to have it dried at the elevator. Either one of these scenarios will lower the cost per bushel. The grain is then dumped from the truck to a work floor of the elevator. The work floor is an open, slatted floor where the grain dumps into pit and will then travel on a continuous belt that has buckets attached to scoop up the grain and then deposits it into silos.
This bucket system elevates the grain taking it from the floor to the top of the silo thus the whole facility is called a grain elevator. The empty truck will drive back to the scale to weigh the truck again.
This will tell the elevator operator how much corn was unloaded. The farmer will be given a receipt called a weight or scale ticket. This ticket will tell the number of bushels calculated as being brought to the elevator.
It is important for the farmer to know the weight of the grain that was dumped. Corn is sold by the bushel and the standard weight of a bushel is 56 pound s. It is the measurement for weight when buying or selling crops. The ticket will be a record of delivery for the farmer. The scale ticket will show the date, quantity, kind of grain and quality of the grain being delivered. It will also tell if the grain is to be sold or stored.
Grain elevators were created to hold crops being purchased or available for resale, and to help with the problem of storing grain.
The essential function of storage is to protect the grain from the elements and allow for it to be stored and tracked for quality and temperature. The inside building houses a vertical storage with bins that allows for easy transport of the grain. Proper storage is of utmost importance. If the crop is left in the field it can have reduced return on investment due to insects, mold and birds or rodents. Crops must be clean. The moisture content is a major factor for storing safely.
High moisture can lead to mold and fungus. As grains reach maturity the moisture content diminishes.
0コメント