OT = grain trucks

[LenND]

Just read an article in a local farm magazine about a N.D. guy working on a farm in Brazil. He said down there the grain is hauled to the elevator by elevator owned trucks. Sometimes there is a long wait for a truck but on the average doesn't work too bad. What do you guys think of that setup? Len

 

[Anonymous-0]

I worked at an elevator in Iowa when I was in college, and they had several trucks. Mostly we delivered feed or picked up supplements, but every once in a while, I would go out to a farm and pick up grain.

The thing to remember about South America is that things are almost completely different. Many things we take for granted don't exist there.

 

[IaGary]

All the local grain elevators around here have trucks to pickup grain on the farm.

Can't think of one within 100 miles that doesn't have trucks and semis.

 

[Allan in NE]

Yep,

Elevators "here" will buy grain right out of your combine spout. They wanna deal in quantities of semi-loads tho.

Allan

 

[LenND]

Here they don't do that, not from the field anyhow. They do haul it from bin to elevator with semi's, but from field to anywhere is farmers problem as far as I know.

 

[LenND]

This guy said it was at least a 15 hour drive from their elevator to the ships at the port and that was done by the grain companies. Her a lot of the big farmers haul there own to the ports at Duluth but not so much during harvest.

 

[Anonymous-0]

In western Canada (CWB) country, yes the elevators can arrange trucking for you, but only at your cost, plus it must meet with quota/contact restrictions bor Board grains. In western Canada by and large the farmer bears the cost (and risk) of storing the grain and railing it to the nearest seaport ($1.55 CDN per bu of wheat irregardless of grade, last year). My cost from farm to elevator is .16/bu but they load it (semi lots only). Very rarely, heck almost never would you get much picked up off the combine, a small amount 2 weeks later, yes. When I cropped 1000 acres, my av. production was 40,000 bu. I had 32,000 storage and I did pile grain often, and sold it cheap to avoid piling often. Now i'm semi retired I have lots of bin space because my bins aren't big enough to suit my renters.

 

[RobMD]

They certainly don't do it in the east too often because of denser population and more unpredictable hills, swamps, and other conditions.

 

[MSM]

The elevator owned/contracted trucks usually pick up soybeans from the farmers that borrow input money from the elevators.This way the companies are sure to get their money back. It is common for alot of the smaller farmers to borrow their input costs from Bunge or Cargill and then contract all or part of their crop to them,and once the bill is settled,the balance is credited to the borrowers bank account automatically.