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Learning, planning, designing, testing, troubleshooting, optimizing, verifying, and improving every aspect of grain storage.

01

Assess

Evaluate crop type, storage duration, climate, infrastructure, existing monitoring, pest history, and financial risk before storing a single tonne.

  • Storage-readiness checklist
  • Inventory value & risk estimation
  • Crop, moisture, climate, and pest baseline
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02

Plan

Define the storage strategy: safe targets, monitoring needs, pest-management approach, intervention thresholds, and budget expectations.

  • Safe target conditions
  • Intervention thresholds
  • Monitoring and budget planning
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03

Design

Lay out silos, airflow, sensing, automation, safety systems, and treatment capabilities for a robust grain-storage setup.

  • Silo, aeration, and airflow layout
  • Sensor architecture
  • Safety and treatment capabilities
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04

Prepare & Fill

Clean, inspect, calibrate, sample, dry, remove fines, and fill correctly so the storage campaign starts with the best possible baseline.

  • Sanitation and inspection
  • Sampling and drying
  • Correct filling and leveling
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05

Monitor

Track temperature, moisture, CO₂, O₂, humidity, airflow, insect activity, and grain quality with trend-based thinking.

  • Temperature, CO₂, moisture, O₂
  • Trend analysis
  • Remote visibility and alerts
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06

Control

Learn how to use aeration, drying, cooling, nitrogen, and fumigation wisely—and only when conditions justify action.

  • Aeration
  • Cooling / chilling
  • Nitrogen and fumigation
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07

Troubleshoot

Solve heating, mould, insects, condensation, fan underperformance, phosphine failure, and unexpected alarm conditions.

  • Heating grain
  • Condensation and mould
  • Insects and failed fumigation
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08

Optimize

Move beyond acceptable storage toward superior performance: lower energy use, less overdrying, earlier detection, and smarter intervention.

  • Less overdrying
  • Lower energy use
  • Improved sensor placement
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09

Reduce Losses

Quantify and reduce quantity losses, quality losses, and commercial losses across the entire storage lifecycle.

  • Quantity losses
  • Quality losses
  • Commercial downgrade losses
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10

Verify

Confirm that airflow improved, cooling fronts moved, nitrogen concentrations held, fumigations worked, and grain quality remained protected.

  • Did cooling work?
  • Did treatment work?
  • Did quality remain stable?
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11

Recover / Remediate

Handle contaminated or compromised grain through segregation, reconditioning, detoxification, downgrade decisions, and recovery planning.

  • Segregate affected lots
  • Recondition or detoxify
  • Decide on downgrade or disposal
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12

Learn

Follow curated learning paths for beginners, operators, managers, pest specialists, and advanced diagnostics teams.

  • Beginner pathways
  • Operator pathways
  • Advanced diagnostic pathways
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