Farmers Turn to 500 foot Plastic Storage Bags in Wake of Storm Damage

(Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor)

(North Dakota Monitor) – When June storms demolished three grain bins that Dean Bjornson had planned to use to store much of this year’s crop, his reaction was to bag it instead

He ordered 14 grain storage bags — long plastic tubes that have become more common on North Dakota farms in recent years — to replace the lost storage.

Bjornson said the need for almost-immediate storage and the cost of putting up new grain bins made the decision an easy one.

“Grain bins are like gold,” Bjornson said. “It’s like two bucks a bushel to put up a grain bin, and when you can put it in a sack for 6 cents (per bushel), that’s just good math.”