Compare selling at harvest with holding grain for a later cash price. This simple screening tool can show a gain, a break-even result, or a loss. It is not designed to tell every farmer that bins pay.
Enter your expected production and cash-price assumptions. The calculator subtracts a simple holding cost before showing the potential value preserved.
Enter your numbers at left. This estimate updates automatically and will tell you plainly if storage does not pay this year.
Est. per-acre margin at harvest price: $0/acre
Based on these numbers, new storage could pay for itself this year.
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Basis, futures carry, trucking, fan energy, moisture shrink, financing, and your farm's own production numbers can swing this result by thousands of dollars in either direction. GrainIQ runs the version built around your numbers.
Run My Farm's Numbers in GrainIQWhat GrainIQ adds: your elevator's real basis and futures carry, your actual bin fan and monitoring costs, and a break-even that updates as prices move. When the numbers say new storage pays, GrainIQ points right back here.
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