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Morris, IL | You might be right on V bottom in nova scotia Canada. Down here in the 10,000 bushel plus they are a major premium. But i'm a lot further south, 30% is probably normal up their. We are going with lot smaller setup, going with 5,500 bushel hopper. Over the course of it's life the extra $1 will be worth it vs. a flat bottom. But larger you go flat bottom gets cheaper and over 8,000 bushel you hare to go with commercial hopper bin $$$.
I'm guessing you currently haul all grain to elevator, so you dump into legs at elevators. Just because elevator has them doesn't mean you do at least year one. 13" auger will move a lot of grain and i'd guess 1/5 the cost. Now you go so tall auger won't work but for wet storage your probably not going to get that tall, 80-100' auger should cover you for sure. I'd put that money towards CF dryer horizontal dryer.
Or if you want tower dryer you need wet leg. But you can still use blower to unload dryer. Neighbor in this are has that setup. Wet leg to feed tower dryer and wet bin, unload trucks, and unload dry bins come winter. He then blower the dry corn to dry bins with blower system. Sure you can plan on dry leg for future but even 2000 bph dryer can be handled with blower system.
With big enough wet bin you really only need dryer capable of 1000-1500 at 25% (guessing 25%-30% is what you harvest up in Canada). With that you would want 20,000+ bushel wet bin.
3 phase right at the farm, you don't know what an advantage that is.
Edited by NEILFarmer 2/5/2013 17:01
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