Agricultural Storage Protocol
Commercial Grain Warehouse Storage & Quality Protocol
🌾 USDA FGIS Inbound Grading & Scale Tickets
- ✅ Automated Probe Sampling: Mechanical hydraulic probe draws 5 core samples across truck bed length.
- ✅ Moisture & Test Weight: Certified 149 MHz UGMA moisture meter reading printed automatically on scale ticket.
- ✅ Foreign Material (FM) Limits: Standard #2 Yellow Corn basis allows max 3.0% FM; excess docked 1:1 by weight.
💧 Drying Tariffs & Moisture Shrink Discounts
- ✅ Base Moisture Standards: Corn (15.0%), Soybeans (13.0%), Soft Red Winter Wheat (13.5%).
- ✅ Minary Table Shrink: Uniform 1.35%–1.40% shrink factor applied per moisture point above base standard.
- ✅ Drying Charge Schedules: $0.045 per bushel per point removed; billed against gross delivered weight.
🌡️ Silo Temperature Monitoring & Aeration
- ⚠️ Thermocouple Cable Checks: Digital temperature cable readings logged weekly to prevent hot-spot spoilage.
- ⚠️ Aeration Fan Cycling: Aeration fans engaged when ambient dew point is minimum 10°F cooler than grain mass.
- ✅ Phosphine Fumigation: Sizable weevil or beetle infestation triggers mandatory closed-recirculation gas fumigation.
📜 Warehouse Receipts & USWA Licensing
- 💎 Negotiable Electronic Receipts: Issued via USDA-approved e-Title registry for bank commodity pledge loans.
- 💎 Statutory Warehouse Bond: Facility maintains USWA / State Department of Agriculture performance surety bond.
- 💎 Storage Tariff Accrual: Storage fee of $0.065/bu/mo accrues daily; deducted from final cash forward settlement.