CHRISMAN, Ill. — From a bird’s-eye view, giant white caterpillars crawled across some large harvested fields last fall. Those plastic grain bags, often 300 feet long, hold corn as a temporary convenience, rather than immediately trucking the grain away, and saving money that could be spent building a bin or in elevator storage charges.
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Corey and Chris Phipps, who farm in eastern Illinois, tried temporary grain storage bags for the first time in 2017. The Phipps bought two grain bag handling machines. A third piece of equipment rolls the used bag to be recycled.
Photo courtesy Corey Phipps
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