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East of Broken Bow | That 35 cents is from November to January most years, not 6 months of storage. If you want to go into summer, you get more like 45-50 cents, and that is basis improvement only, not the spring price increase.
When you say you'd haul to the elevator all day long, that is exactly what you would be doing here, because an hour wait with the truck is not uncommon during harvest rush, and with me being a one man show, it really slows things down:
Time it takes to fill the truck - 40 minutes
Time it takes to get to town - 30 minutes
Time to unload - an hour or more during peak harvest, sat almost 2 hours last year more than once
Time it takes to get back to field - 25 minutes
Now, here is me harvesting into my bins:
Time to fill load - 40 minutes
Time it takes to get to bin - 3 to 10 minutes depending on field
20 minutes to unload
Time back to the field - 2 to 8 minutes, depending on field.
The bin i put up 15 years ago has paid for itself in corn not blown down or snowed in due to harvest delays. Any price increase I get just adds to that.
ETA: When you mention the cost of electricity and handling it twice, don't forget to factor in I can dry my corn myself for less than half of what the elevator charges in drying fees and excess shrink. Normally I start harvest around 22% and finish around 18-19, so that plays a part as well.
Edited by HuskerJ 9/2/2025 10:42
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New bin.
