Whilst the choice of grain storage methods is wide, the most popular ones are steel silos, concrete silos, storage warehouses and bag silos among others. Through this article we’ll analyze the difference between steel silos and concrete silos.

Bag silos are a cheap solution for grain storage but its use has some limitations and disadvantages over the storage in steel silos: Steel silos keep the grains safe longer, have greater storage capacity in a much smaller area, are recommended to store high moisture grains, avoid humidity problems and are easier to unload.

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Using steel silos to store the grain instead of using warehouses provides many advantages, such as less ground space, optimum storage conditions for the grain, lower assembly costs and less expensive overall.