For some farmers, it’s simply something they’ve always wanted to do and now can afford. For others, there are clear advantages in cost and ability to time the market
by MIKE MULHERN
When Dave Brock built his first grain storage bins at the family farm in the southwestern corner of Perth County in 1978, he was starting something that is still a work in progress more than 30 years later.
Brock began with two, 10,000-bushel bins, one of them a drying bin. Now, with his son Mark and Mark’s wife Sandi running their 1,500-acre cash crop operation, they are at 90,000 bushels of storage and counting. “We seem to be updating every five to 10 years,” Mark says, “by adding storage or changing how our drying system works.”