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Grain Storage Decision Toolkit
Know what it costs to store a bushel — before you build the bin or hold the grain.
Bin Sizing Planner
Enter your acres, yields, and how much you want to store on-farm. Shows the total capacity you need, the gap beyond your existing bins, and roughly how many bins of a given size fill it.
Bin Purchase Decision
Full build cost — steel, concrete, fans, wiring, augers, site prep — plus financing, annual operating costs, and the savings you expect from storing on-farm. Shows your payback, ROI, and all-in cost per bushel.
Drying Cost Calculator
What it really costs to dry your grain: moisture shrink, LP/fuel, and electricity. Compares your on-farm cost to the elevator's, counting shrink on both sides so the comparison is fair.
Rent vs Buy vs Commercial
Maybe you don't need to build. Compares building your own, renting space, and paying the elevator — side by side per bushel, on the same time basis — and names the lowest first-year cost.
Multi-Year Cash Flow
Year-by-year over 15 years: loan paydown, annual savings, cumulative cash flow, and the break-even year when the bin has paid back your down payment. Useful when you're talking to your lender.
Store or Sell
Sell at harvest or store and sell later? Build your expected later price from the futures carry and your basis, then weigh it against interest, drying, shrink, and trucking. Shows the net advantage of storing, the break-even later price, and a sensitivity table across later prices.
Sell or Feed
For livestock-and-grain operations. Feed your own raised grain or sell it and buy feed? Compares what you'd net selling against what buying equivalent feed would cost, and shows which comes out ahead at your figures.
Bin Inventory & Condition Log
Log every load in and out of each bin with moisture and condition checks. Current balance and % full update automatically.
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