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.
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.
