What Is Mobile Grain Cleaning?

Mobile Grain Cleaning: Bringing Professional Cleaning Directly to Your Facility

If you're dealing with grain that contains foreign material, dockage, damaged kernels, weed seeds, or other contaminants, you may not need to haul it to another facility. Mobile grain cleaning allows professional equipment to come directly to your location, saving time, freight costs, and handling.

What Is Mobile Grain Cleaning?

Mobile grain cleaning is the process of bringing commercial grain cleaning equipment directly to a farm, elevator, processor, seed plant, or food manufacturing facility. Instead of transporting grain to a cleaning plant, the cleaning equipment is transported to you.

Depending on the product and quality requirements, mobile cleaning may include:

  • Screening to remove oversized and undersized material

  • Air aspiration to remove light contaminants

  • Gravity separation

  • Optical color sorting

  • Metal detection

  • Near Infrared (NIR) sorting

  • X-ray inspection for specialty applications

Why Companies Choose Mobile Grain Cleaning

Many companies choose onsite cleaning because it reduces transportation costs and allows grain to be processed without disrupting normal operations.

Mobile cleaning is commonly used for:

  • Wheat

  • Corn

  • Soybeans

  • Pinto beans

  • Navy beans

  • Kidney beans

  • Lentils

  • Chickpeas

  • Peas

  • Canola

  • Specialty grains

  • Seed

Common Reasons Grain Needs Cleaning

Grain may require cleaning because of:

  • Foreign material

  • Weed seeds

  • Ergot

  • Discolored kernels

  • Damaged grain

  • Broken kernels

  • Splits

  • Mold damage

  • Dockage

  • Off-grade product

Cleaning can often improve the value and marketability of grain while helping it meet buyer specifications.

Loraas Custom Sorting's Mobile Approach

Loraas Custom Sorting provides mobile grain cleaning services throughout the United States. Our equipment is transported directly to your facility, where we clean product onsite using the equipment best suited for your application.

Whether you're processing a few hundred bushels or several hundred thousand bushels, we customize the cleaning system to your product and quality requirements.

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