Page 26 2025 Fall Farm Outlook Lincoln Daily News Oct 2025 [and] it can gather data and do inspections alongside your sensors you already have in the bin. It can also help you feed the extraction augers so you can have a more efficient extraction process.” The Grain Weevil robot website further describes how it helps with grain leveling, breaking crusts and bridges and grain unloading. It can “level stored grain from a peak of valley state to improve bin uniformity for long-term storage quality [and] break up surface crusts to prevent sump plugging and enhance grain health.” The robot can also “pull down cliffs and help assist with feeding sweep augers for the final bin unloading.” A Nationwide agribusiness article explains that the robot “employs two augers or “screws” to propel it along the surface of stored grain. In the process, the drive system disrupts the grain’s surface. The result is a ‘controlled avalanche’ that employs gravity to enable the grain’s surface to flow and even out naturally. The Grain Weevil can also be programmed to level out peaks in stored grain to ensure even distribution inside a bin. If need be, the robot can be used to break up any crust that’s formed over time from the presence of moisture or quality degradation.” Farmers use a remote control outside the grain bin and can see the grain with a bin camera system. A robot lift system is used to place the grain weevil robot inside the bin. As the Grain Weevil robot website says, “the Grain Weevil doesn’t just make bin work safer – it makes it more productive and profitable by controlling risk, minimizing costs, and actively optimizing stored grain. By fundamentally changing the way we manage stored grain, Grain Weevil protects people and profits one bin at a time.” By keeping farmers out of the bin and reducing the risks of entrapment, the grain weevil robot offers a safe and effective option for managing grain. [Angela Reiners] Sources: Cheng, Yuan-Hsin et al. “2024 Summary of U.S. Agricultural Confined Space-related Injuries and Fatalities.” Coxworth, Ben. “Grain-flinging robot goes into granaries so farmers don’t have to.” 26 June 2023 Eckelkamp, Magy. “A Robot To Replace The Need For Farmers To Go Inside the Grain Bin.” 26 Sept. 2024. Nationwide. “Grain Weevil robot keeps farmers out of grain bins.” Petry, Eliza. “Ag Reporter Eliza Petry’s top picks of the 2025 Farm Progress Show.” 28 August 2025 The Grain Weevil Robot
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