Ag Matters Winter 2018
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Michlig Holdings erected this 2.3-million-bushel hoop building at its Sheffield facility to help accommodate the past two years’ worth of large corn yields.
Big crop prompts bigger storage structures BY LYLE GANTHER Shaw Media Bureau County farmers and area elevators have built additional bins or structures to help store large yields from 2017 and 2018 crops. Don King of Manlius, owner of Michlig Holdings, which operates
g rain storage facilities in Sheffield, Bradford, Mineral, Manlius, Deer Grove and Cambridge, said his company built a 2.3 million-bushel hoop building at its Sheffield facility this past year to store corn due to depressed farm prices, carryover from last year’s large crop, and this year’s large crop.
The building reached its capacity just one month after first accepting shipments of corn. “Grain storage is in very high demand, even with ethanol plants we are very fortunate to have nearby,” said Doug Ray of Ray Farm Management Services in Princeton. Ray said many local elevators have
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added additional storage facilities in McNabb, Kasbeer, Ladd, Varna and Sublette, and “many of these elevators will be full. Because of the large crops, the harvest basis is very wide, so there is an excellent premium to store grain,” he said. He said many farmers have also built big grain storage units.
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