FYI. Just got off the phone with St. Clair county co-op. A pallet of corn is 40 bags at 50lbs each, so 1 ton. It's $280 for a pallet, they cut you about .37 cents a bag if you buy a whole pallet. A 55 gallon drum is $43.80. It takes 5 drums to equate to a pallet. 5x$43.80=$219. So you save about $60 by buying drums , but then you have to bucket it out of there into something else and handle those heavy ass drums. Just food for thought.

how many pounds of corn does the 55 gallon drums hold?

Pallet is 2000 pounds divided by 5 barrels equals 400 lbs for the mathematically challenged.

55 gallon drum full is almost exactly 6 bushels @ 56 lbs each. So 336 lbs +/- a few pounds.

Depends on how clean the drum corn is..

I give $1/bushel over Dec19 on the CME trade for mine. It’s fair for my farmers I buy from. I’m happy. They’re happy

They said the barrel holds 8 50 lb bags.

350 pounds is more accurate in my experience

Listen to me and paw paw. 6 to 6 1/4 bushel of dry corn is bout all that's going in a 55 gallon drum. Bushel = 56 lbs.

Some corn is more dense or wet and that will make a lot of difference in the amount a 55 gallon drum will hold. If you buy from a farm, make sure it is dry or it will mold.

For long term storage 14.5% moisture is where it needs to be at least.

Cheap bulk corn is great but if you don’t have a way to handle it, it’s tough.

Not only that but it needs to be clean, not full of pieces of cob and stalks, or it will stop up your spin feeder, and that's a biotch to remedy. Ok, so that's good to know that a 55 gal drum holds less than 350 lbs. Think i'll just go the pallet route, hell of a lot easier to handle and usually clean.

Im from Louisiana and grain elevators here are selling 1 ton tote bags for $185.00. of course you have to go pick it up.

The elevator I've used weighs the bulk corn and charges per pound. Average weight of drum is 325-340. It's been about 11 cents a lb.

I’ve always traded there but is there anywhere around bham to get bags? (Without the “monster” buck in the front)

It’s not hard to go buy 1/2 by 1/2 wire screen build a frame and clean the corn pouring it into the feeder.

I’ll have corn on pallets starting late August in Montevallo. It will be cheaper than $280 ton.

$280/ton is $7/50lb bag. That's not a great price.

I can get it for $5.95/50lb bag even if I buy one bag.

where are you buying it for 5.95?

A big place up here called Scruggs. They sell 17-17-17 for $10.95, which is pretty dang cheap, in my opinion.

I get it for less than that bagged in muscle shoals if I want it

I will have it for sale also. $7 /51lbs bag

I didn't say it was a great price, just letting people know what I came across. The co-op is the cheapest place I've found around here.

Stopped at Buc-cee's yesterday on the way home from taking the family down for lunch at the beach. First time I've been in there. They are selling 50 lb bags of corn for $5.99/bag for those who feel that they need that sort of thing to kill a deer.

Its at wally world for sale to for bout the same..

All Walmart carries is 40 lb bags here.

Crap it’s $7.75 at the feed stores around here.

What a ripoff. Feed mill here is $5.75. I could push him a lil lower but he’s a good customer and friend.

hunterbuck they may be 40lb bags i just saw it the other day on a pallet didnt check bag sizes

Farmer I buy from here is still $5 a bag for ear corn or shelled

It been screened or just field run?

This!!

Screened, although not the best. I screen it again as I’m filling feeders

Yea, all Walmart and academy has is 40lb bags. I wish I had a farmer close by that had it. The one that used to have corn has retired, he's in his 90's.

$7.99 per 50 lb bag around here and it all has weevils in it now. Anybody bought any from Bucees? If so, is it infested with weevils?

I didnt buy any the other day, nor did I inspect it closely, but their bags are kinda see through plastic, and I didnt notice any. Looked like good, clean corn.

7.25 50 # bags and loose corn 12.50 per 100 at the closest co -op to me.

How much you gonna have for sale.

Probably going to keep around 1000 bushel