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    On farm Fert storage

    Just going through the Fert threads and it seems like a lot of people are storing Fert on farm these days. We’ve always booked in the fall and picked up in the spring (we are 5-10 minutes away from three different fertilizer dealers)

    What is the biggest reason for you guys doing this.. distance away from fertilizer blender? price savings, what’s the typical spread? Knowing that you have the product?

    Just wondering if this is the next thing our farm should be looking at or if it’s just something to forget about. Thanks.

    #2
    Originally posted by jdg364 View Post
    Just going through the Fert threads and it seems like a lot of people are storing Fert on farm these days. We’ve always booked in the fall and picked up in the spring (we are 5-10 minutes away from three different fertilizer dealers)

    What is the biggest reason for you guys doing this.. distance away from fertilizer blender? price savings, what’s the typical spread? Knowing that you have the product?

    Just wondering if this is the next thing our farm should be looking at or if it’s just something to forget about. Thanks.
    Augers cost money to handle it twice.

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      #3
      Stored granular on farm for years and then eventually smartened up and recognized the value in a nice facility that you can pull up to and blend off whatever mix for optimizing tank capacity. We still have a fertilizer bin with 10 t of AMS that went from granular to a solid block of pain in the ass. Five years it’s been like that, can’t muster the effort to cut the bin open and fight with it.

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        #4
        We’re 30 miles from the nearest blender and you can wait an hour or more in the line. The we used to prebuy in December and pay storage till we picked it up in the spring. Then the dealer one year ran out of our phos that we prebought and that was the end of that. The bins we’ve bought have been on three year leases and the savings make the payments. All are pretty much empty and not sure what to do this year???????

        Can’t imagine going back. Being able to load quicker and anytime is worth a lot to us. And if we run out I know whose butt to kick😎

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          #5
          120 miles from fert... it pretty much has to be in store.

          I typically take raw esn and raw 11-52, and make my own blend with the drill for each field. Sulphur gets spread ahead of oilseeds.

          It shot two birds with one stone for me... I had no hopper bins, so i got bins that I can turn 5 or 6 times a year, combined with fertilizer I can drag home when I deliver grain, and fill up in the morning before i head for the drill.

          Most years i save a few bucks dragging home in january, so that's an added bonus.

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            #6
            Isnt it nice to have a few ag related topics still on this hell site called "that which shall not be named"ville?

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              #7
              Originally posted by workboots View Post
              Stored granular on farm for years and then eventually smartened up and recognized the value in a nice facility that you can pull up to and blend off whatever mix for optimizing tank capacity. We still have a fertilizer bin with 10 t of AMS that went from granular to a solid block of pain in the ass. Five years it’s been like that, can’t muster the effort to cut the bin open and fight with it.
              Talk to a daylighter with a rotating nozzle. Once they get in the manhole it goes pretty quick.

              Vac out and spread.

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                #8
                Used to pick up in spring, now they don’t offer a spring price until January. By buying early we save a good chunk of the cost of bins every year.

                BTO next door had a 2500 mt shed and blender on farm. He has added a further 10,000 mt expansion this spring. Says he often can’t get a price for spring delivery.

                We have 5 retail outlets in town, but not enough storage for everyone.

                Nice to have fert at the yard in seeding. Quick for one of the guys to fill the seed and fert trucks and then go back to rolling or spraying.
                Last edited by LEP; Oct 2, 2021, 21:49.

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                  #9
                  We take 90% home it’s ours it’s home and we control it.

                  No games

                  Now anhydrous we have no control and a 90 ton bullet won’t help

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                    #10
                    First year I stored fert on farm the spread was $100 for pre buy vs take home. Last few years has only been half that, some savings but biggest reason for me as a one man show is shutting down the drill to spend an hour in a fertilizer line is enough to make you go crazy. Dealers here dont work the same hours I do either, always seemed to be a rush to get to town before they close. Like woodland, one year they ran out of product I had prepaid for, ended up having to go to another retailer and get straight sulphur to take back to the first place to make my canola blend. On the flip side hauling it home in the winter it's a pain to clean up and the roads always end up being wet and salty. Also would prefer to adjust blends by the field sometimes but just dont have the capability how I'm set up. I have a few epoxy bins but they still show rust sooner than they should, storage has been ok in them but the poke holes are necessary. I actually built a wood bin with metal clad and a wood hopper in the bottom, no signs of rust on the metal and the fert stores better in the wood, pretty small at only 36t but works well.

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                      #11
                      There is no such thing as pre-buy now and pick up in the spring around here. If you buy it now you have to take it within a week. So had to have fert bins. Not buying any this fall though.

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                        #12
                        If you add this silica powder into the auger as you are transferring the fert it will help prevent caking and help with flowing later.
                        SIPERNAT® 22 S is silica with a high absorption capacity used as a flow and anticaking agent in many applications as well as a special-purpose ingredient for mechanical graphics papers. In plant protection, this product is recommended as a carrier in solid formulations.

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                          #13
                          We store some S15 on farm and use an old flighting auger for transfer. Does anyone have a trick for cleaning fertilizer out of the auger afterwards? Something to neutralize the fertilizer? Has anyone tried Flogging some water through it?

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by workboots View Post
                            We store some S15 on farm and use an old flighting auger for transfer. Does anyone have a trick for cleaning fertilizer out of the auger afterwards? Something to neutralize the fertilizer? Has anyone tried Flogging some water through it?
                            Wheat seed run slowly should shine it up. Then put it in the drill.

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by workboots View Post
                              We store some S15 on farm and use an old flighting auger for transfer. Does anyone have a trick for cleaning fertilizer out of the auger afterwards? Something to neutralize the fertilizer? Has anyone tried Flogging some water through it?
                              We run water through the auger afterwards. We use the same auger for moving clean seed so shines it up. Putting water through and not using it again until next year would likely be a headache.

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