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.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Yes. Grain can often be cleaned months after harvest, whether it is stored on-farm or at a commercial facility.
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Yes. Our mobile equipment is designed to travel directly to customer locations.
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We regularly work with grains, edible beans, pulse crops, seed, and specialty food ingredients.
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You can reach us anytime via our contact page, or email. We aim to respond quickly—usually within one business day.
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Every lot is different. Contact us with photos, samples, or grading information, and we'll help determine the best cleaning process.