Why Choose Loftness Grain Bagging?
- Designed and built in the United States for North American farmers, utilizing U.S. components and workmanship.
- Speed up your harvest. Don't wait for trucks, the dryer or elevator lines. Fill bags in the field and keep the combines moving.
- Fill bags from the combine, grain carts or even semi-trucks.
- Expand the capacity of your existing grain handling system.
- Easily segregate your grain or seed by variety, moisture content, etc.
- Store wet corn before drying for increased harvest efficiency and reduced harvest time.
- It's suitable for keeping some kinds of pelleted materials such as alfalfa pellets, ground corn or urea inside a grain bag.
- It's a fraction of the cost of a grain bin set-up.
- There are no property taxes on the grain bag system or grain bags.
- Can be depreciated faster than grain bins.
- Store your grain in bags for about 5 cents to 7 cents per bushel.
- Eliminate elevator storage costs.
- Reduce your labor force; less trucks are required.
- Remove grain from bag after harvest when time is more abundant.
- Control your own marketing strategy.
- Easy to use.
- Bag your crop at the rate of 30,000 bushels per hour.
- Supported by local dealerships, backed by factory-trained technicians and local sales representatives.
- Over 50-year company history with state-of-the art manufacturing facility.
Advantages
- Uses:
- Dry grains: soybean, corn, sorghum, wheat, sunflower, millet, oats, rice, barley, etc.
- Wet grains: corn, sorghum, wheat, etc.
- Fertilizer.
- Harvesting:
- The harvest will not be delayed waiting for storage to become available on farm or elsewhere.
- The grain bag can be put in the field where harvesting is taking place or anywhere on the farm.
- Grains can be stored as to their variety, grade, protein, and moisture, or for any other reason.
- Storage in a bumper season is unlimited.
- Grain can be freighted after harvest, freeing up time during harvest.
- Marketing Flexibility:
- The opportunity to grow, store, and market niche crops on farm.
- Gives the producer control and time to market the crop.
- No hasty decisions on pricing your commodities at harvest when pricing can be complicated and can cost you money.
- Marketing your commodity knowing that you have the crop in the bag rather than before harvest, hoping you can achieve the bushels to fill contracts.
- The grain bags are sealed airtight, so chemicals are not required. No withholding period.
- Perfect for organic commodities.
- Grains retain their quality, including color.
- Controlling Costs:
- Eliminates costly on-farm storage systems, freeing up capital.
- Bag cost of 7ยข cents per bushel of stored grain.
- The high price of freight during harvest can be avoided by negotiating a freight rate on a back load or by shopping around for after-harvest rates.
- Reduced reliance on chemicals, helping to delay resistance.