Top Tips for Great Grain Stores
Having the right grain store is crucial to your farming business. Grain stores play a vital role in ensuring that your valuable crop is properly maintained and stored so it’s ready to sell. Here’s Graham Heath Construction’s top tips on building a better grain store:
- To keep your grain in tip-top condition you will need to ensure that the grain store itself is built by someone with knowledge of the unique demands of grain storage. At Graham Heath Construction, we know that your new grain store not only needs to be able to keep your crops clean and dry, but that it needs to able to keep the grain at a maintained temperature, whilst still ensuring regular aeration. We use the latest steel-framed building techniques and materials to ensure your new steel-framed grain store meets all these important factors, along with unique solutions to meet your exact needs – whether you want the capability for a big intake of grain or the need for speedy turnarounds as your grain is harvested and delivered into storage.
- Your new grain store also needs to be a no-go zone for the birds and rodents who are attracted to your crop. Graham Heath Construction grain stores offer the very latest in secure, vermin-proof grain storage using materials and techniques, including 150mm grainwalling and shedder flashing, designed to keep unwanted visitors out.
- Drying the grain is just as important as harvesting it. We will ensure that your new grain store works seamlessly with any existing drying and cleaning operation you may have at your farm, or we can integrate these facilities into your new grain store to allow you to dry the grain whilst it is in storage.
- Remember that year upon year your yield may change in size, so you will need a grain storage facility that can easily be adapted. Graham Heath grain stores can be fitted with any number of bays, of varying sizes, and if you need extra space it’s easy to extend a steel-framed grain store by simply adding more bays. This makes your new steel-framed grain store the perfect solution if you anticipate bigger yields in future years, saving you the worry of having to sell grain quickly because you have nowhere to dry or store it.
