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Plan the grain system around your operation.

A good bin, dryer, or conveyor can still be the wrong investment if the site, capacity, utilities, grain flow, or next phase were never worked through. We start with the operation. Then we decide what belongs on the site.

Farm storage, commercial grain handling, and bulk-material planning backed by industrial design-build and federal construction quality experience.

farm storage
commercial grain handling
bulk material planning
industrial project discipline
Current Bottleneck

What is your current bottleneck?

The goal is not to move the bottleneck somewhere more expensive. A new bin can help one part of harvest and still create a truck-flow, fill, unload, aeration, or power problem somewhere else. If you cannot say what becomes the bottleneck after this purchase, the project is not ready to price.

Question to Ask

Can trucks get from field to receiving and back without waiting on the site?

Question to Ask

Can trucks get in, dump, and return to the field fast enough?

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Is wet-grain capacity or dryer throughput setting the pace?

Question to Ask

Can the conveying system move grain as fast as the equipment feeding it?

Question to Ask

Does the bin fit today's crop and the crop the farm may put in it later?

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Can the system maintain required airflow through the full grain depth and crop being stored?

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Is the equipment designed around the crop, required discharge rate, and expected wear?

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Can trucks, tractors, portable conveyors, and people use the site without creating another problem?

site planning

A bin is a circle on a drawing. Everything around it is the grain system.

Once the first bin is placed, new constraints begin to appear. The project should consider the consequences of each decision before concrete is poured.

Solving one bottleneck can create another.

Bin 1
Future 2
Future 3
Truck route
possible dryer
Electrical service
drainage
maintenance access
common fill conveyor
How we plan

The equipment quote should be the result of the plan — not the beginning of it.

Read the full planning method
farm systems

Storage and handling planned around harvest, grain quality, and the future of the farm.

Commercial systems

Equipment, layout, material-flow planning, and project support for grain and bulk-material facilities.

Storage economics

Would having storage have paid?

Run a simple scenario for harvest sale value, later sale value, holding cost, elevator storage avoided, and operational savings.

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GrainIQ

your farm has more variables than just bin space

For basis, carry, trucking, fan energy, moisture, financing, and farm-specific production numbers, run the deeper analysis.

run your full farm-specific analysis in grainiq
what makes us different

We didn't learn project planning from the grain-bin business.

Buffalo Grain Systems brings industrial construction, design-build, quality control, project management, and bulk-material discipline into agricultural grain systems. That background gives us a different standard for deciding whether a project is actually ready to build.

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What We Routinely Hear From Farmers

  • We know we need more storage. We don't know where to start.
  • Harvest keeps getting slowed down at the same point.
  • We may add another bin later, but we haven't planned where it goes.
  • We are comparing quotes and are not sure the scopes are actually equal.
  • We already have a layout and quotes. We want to know whether the plan actually makes sense.