Sounds like you have a sorry excuse for an elevator that can't handle a grain harvest they know is coming year after year. I'm with ss55. Find out what their bottleneck is before you do anything. Is it storage capacity? Drying capacity? Shipping capacity? Short on capitol for buying grain?
For anything 5,000 bu or less a bin is more trouble than it's worth versus hauling it in right off the combine. Also, whatever dollars you put into it you'll never get but a fraction of it back again if you want to sell it. But if you insist on on-farm storage then consider a hopper bin. You won't need any cement, no electricity if you have a pto auger, no shoveling, no dust and you will have something you can resell anytime you change your operation. You could also move it across the yard or to a neighboring farm anytime its not handy where its at. I've seen some guys park them right in the corner of the field and set up a gravity box at the auger. Dump the grain cart right into the box and no wasting time hauling with a truck at all.
You can get them with an aeration tube option if you want to put a fan on it but it's more for holding the condition of a crop, not drying. I wouldn't suggest putting real wet corn in it.
That said, you need to find out from your elevator if storage capacity is the issue. If so, you could see if they won't take your wet corn as a priority if you offer to take a load of dry corn out at the same time to put in your hopper bin. Might be you could be the only one harvesting while everyone else is sitting still.
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