Dave, I am not a very big crop farmer but I have good yields some years. I do not have a grain bin because it is not cost effective but I did look into getting one sometime back. Yes the smaller bins are cheaper but they are not much help if you have a large crop. If your yield is only 100 bushels per acre you will have 5000 bushels to store on only 50 acres. In some places that yield could double and you are right back where you are now. In my small operation I have gone over 10,000 bushels a few times.
I also considered the cost of drying the crop so that it could be stored without spoiling and that helped me decide against the bins. Now I use other methods to keep my crop when it can not be shipped, including two grain carts that hold over 1000 bushels and 5 gravity wagons that hold another 1000 bushels. My trucker hauls with a trailer that holds 1000 bushel that he can put under cover for a few days.
Yes, I sometimes think that it would be nice to have bins for storage but then I consider the problem of loading and unloading one and the cost of maintenance and I let that thought pass. Good luck and happy farming.
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