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USDA releases Wisconsin, U.S. grain storage figures

The United States on-farm grain storage capacity totaled 13-point-5 billion bushels on December 1st, up less than 1 percent.  The capacity of off-farm commercial grain storage in the United States totaled 11.2 billion bushels on December 1st, up 1 percent.

Wisconsin has 735 million bushels of grain storage capacity. On-farm storage was 375 million bushels as of December 1st, the same as 2016.  The state’s 370 off-farm facilities have the same 360 million bushel capacity as the previous year.

Illinois and Iowa remained the two largest off-farm storage capacity States during 2017, counting Iowa’s 40-million bushel increase in capacity.  Iowa leads all states with 2-point-1 billion bushels of on-farm storage capacity followed by Minnesota and Illinois.

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