On-farm grain storage, engineered and built in Pretoria — so you can hold your own crop past the harvest glut and sell when the market pays what it's worth.
Every harvest, the price falls — because every farmer sells at once. Without your own storage, you sell into that glut. Then you watch the price climb back up after your grain is already gone.
Grain moves the day it's cut — straight into the harvest-season low.
Transport is scarce and expensive when everyone needs it at once.
Storage certificates, handling fees and grading happen on someone else's terms.
The margin between your farm gate and the shelf goes to the middleman.
Hold your crop cool and dry, and sell weeks or months later — into a stronger market.
Move grain when transport is available and rates are fair.
Grade, bag and brand under your own name, on your own yard.
Keep seed and feed on hand — and the margin on your side of the gate.
Storage is the difference between taking the price and setting it.
On-farm buffer storage breaks the harvest-time price trap. Keep your grain until the market comes to you.
Store, grade and bag on your own yard. Sell a branded product, not an anonymous load off the back of a truck.
Sell straight to millers, feedlots and buyers. Fewer hands between your harvest and your bank account.
Keep next season's seed and your own feed on hand. Independence you can measure in tonnes.
The same corrugated Smart-Silo architecture we build for commercial storage — engineered to international grain-load standards, and now scaling to twenty rings and 2 750 tonnes in a single silo. One system, from farm bin to commercial bank.
| Shell | Corrugated G550 ZINCALUME® steel — high tensile, factory pre-coated, bolted rings |
| Plate build-up | 0.75–1.20 mm sheets, up to 3 laminations, 3.60 mm max per ring — heaviest at the base |
| Structure | Corrugated shell carries hoop load; all vertical load taken by external stiffener columns |
| Roof | Self-supporting cone, radial rafters — clear-span with no centre column to Ø 15 m |
| Floor | Flat concrete slab with in-floor perforated aeration ducts + external blowers |
| Discharge | Centre sunken auger to an external pit, with sweep auger for clean-out |
| Diameter | Ø 5.24 – 14.96 m (7 to 20 panels per ring) |
| Wall height | 2.0 – 19.8 m (2 to 20 stacked rings) — add rings as you grow |
| Design basis | EN 1991-4 grain loading (Janssen) · SANS 10160-3 wind · engineer sign-off per site |
| Assembly | Bolted & modular — relocatable and expandable, not welded in place |
Indicative ranges for planning. Every silo is sized, load-checked and signed off by a professional engineer for your grain, site and wind zone before fabrication.
Not imported in a container. Designed, punched and rolled in our own factory — so parts fit, supply is close, and the engineering answers to us.
Your Smart-Silo is raised by trained local partner teams close to your farm — not a crew flown in from far away and billed to you.
Ten farmers with ten silos are ten price-takers. Ten farmers storing together are a supplier — with the tonnage to command a real price.
Neighbouring farmers each raise a Smart-Silo, or share a bank of them on common ground. Volume that a single farm could never hold on its own.
Grade to a shared standard and bag under one co-op brand. Consistent quality and quantity is what serious buyers actually pay for.
Pool your grain and negotiate as a block — straight to millers, feedlots and exporters, on your schedule and your terms.
We'll help you plan the layout, size the silos to your combined harvest, and phase the build so the co-op grows one ring — and one member — at a time.
Farmers fed this country long before the middlemen did.
A silo is more than a purchase. It's the point where you stop selling grain the day it's cut and start deciding when, to whom, and for how much. That's not just a better price — it's independence you can measure in tonnes. We build the steel. You take back control.