Temporary Grain Storage Could Be Needed in 2026

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“Where are we going to put all the grain when harvest starts?”

That’s the question John Tuttle with Brock says more commercial grain handlers are asking as the 2026 harvest approaches. The pressure is building from several directions: high old-crop corn stocks, soft commodity prices, flat storage capacity growth and a narrowing construction window for permanent storage projects.

USDA’s June 1 Grain Stocks data shows on-farm corn stocks were up 16% from a year earlier. Total national corn inventory across all positions was 5.29 billion bushels, up 14% overall. At the same time, national grain storage capacity remains near 25.5 billion bushels, with about 13.6 billion bushels on farm and 11.9 billion bushels off farm. Overall construction and expansion of new storage capacity has largely plateaued since 2020.
Tuttle, who has spent nearly three decades with Brock, says those numbers raise a practical harvest-season concern.

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