Storage you can audit from the ticket
Two weighbridge tickets on every intake, moisture and temperature logged on a stated cycle, and a stock statement you can pull any working day rather than at month end.
What the site holds
Countable from the shed register, and audited annually against it.
How an intake runs
Five steps, and the tickets from steps one and five are the only two figures either side argues from.
Gross weight in
Ticket issued at the bridge before the vehicle moves to the shed. You get a copy at the gate rather than with the invoice a fortnight later.
Sample and grade
Drawn from three depths of the load in front of the driver. Moisture, foreign matter and damaged grain recorded on the ticket — the reading is what is written down, not a grade somebody assigns from it.
Drying, if it is needed
Charged by the point of moisture removed per tonne, at a rate on the tariff. If a load does not need drying we will not dry it, which is worth saying because it is billable work we are declining.
Into the shed
Lot number allocated and stencilled. One grower’s grain is never commingled with another’s without a written instruction from both.
Tare weight out
Second ticket at the bridge. The stored quantity is the difference between two printed numbers and nothing else enters it.
What we measure, and how often
Four readings on a stated cycle. None of them is a guarantee about your grain — they are a record of what the shed did.
Moisture, weekly per lot
Probed at three depths and logged against the lot number. The log is yours on request the same day, not summarised at the end of the season.
Temperature, daily in silo
Cable sensors at four heights. A rise of more than two degrees over three days triggers aeration and a telephone call to you.
Insect activity, fortnightly
Trap counts per shed, logged. Fumigation only on a count, never on a calendar — a schedule is how grain gets treated it did not need.
Weighbridge calibration, twice yearly
Certificates on the wall in the gate office. Ask to see them before you tip the first load rather than after a dispute.
Terms, plainly
Four answers, two of which routinely cost us a season and stay as they are.
How is storage charged?
By the tonne-week from the date of the inward ticket, on the published tariff. Not by the month, because a month is a way of charging four weeks for eleven days.
Do you buy grain as well as store it?
No, and that is deliberate. A storer who also trades has a view on the price of what is in its own sheds, and you cannot see which of the two is speaking when it advises you to hold.
Can you issue a warehouse receipt I can borrow against?
Not against this site. Negotiable receipts need a registration we do not hold, and a bank that lends against a document we are not entitled to issue will discover it before you do. We will say which local sites do hold one.
What happens if grain deteriorates?
The logs show what the shed did and when, and they are yours. Where the readings show we missed something the storage charge goes; where they show grain that came in wet stayed wet, that is on the ticket from day one and we will point at it.
Book a slot before the arrivals start
Sheds fill in the fortnight after harvest opens and the tariff does not move — what moves is whether there is room.
