How many bushels of grain will one of those trailers haul? I suppose it is measured by weight and not by volume? Maybe 20 or 22 ton in a load?
(depends on the trailer and variables in the corn)
Do they test the moisture content at the elevator and pay accordingly?
(Yes, test weight and moisture is done at the elevator although many will know this before they take it in obviously)
Or does the moisture have to be at a certain % before the elevator will take it?
(I am sure they can reject any load for any reason. In 2014 I was taking some seriously moist corn into the elevator and took a seriously big discount...but they took it)
Does the load come from smaller, rural elevators or straight from the farm?
(My elevator loads out into larger trucks that go "someplace else" like the ethanol plant. Don't know if they sell to the larger elevators)
What is a typical load of corn or wheat worth?
(Depends on market, test weight, moisture, foreign matter.)
And that is all I can tell you as a small operator with just a couple years with grain experience under my belt. :)
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