Total storage reaches 11.9 billion bushels
The capacity of off-farm grain storage in the United States totaled 11.9 billion bushels on Dec. 1, 2025, up less than 1% from the Dec. 1, 2024 total, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Jan. 12 quarterly Grain Stocks report.
The largest increase occurred in Illinois where an additional 20 million bushels of capacity were added since Dec. 1, 2024. Other notable increases were shown in Iowa, where capacity increased by 10 million bushes, and South Dakota, where capacity increased by 5 million bushels.
U.S. off-farm storage facilities totaled 7,844 on Dec. 1, 2025, down 1% from the Dec. 1, 2024 estimate.
Top StorageStates
The top states in off-farm storage capacity include:
- Illinois: 790 facilities, with 1.67 billion bushels.
- Iowa: 820 facilities, with 1.54 billion bushels.
- Kansas: 685 facilities, with 1.22 billion bushels.
- Nebraska: 470 facilities, with 990 million bushels.
- Minnesota: 480 facilities, with 820 million bushels.
- Texas: 390 facilities, with 610 million bushels.
- Ohio: 335 facilities, with 475 million bushels.
- North Dakota: 320 facilities, with 460 million bushels.
Off-farm grain storage capacity includes all elevators, warehouses, terminals, merchant mills, other storage and oilseed crushers which store whole grains, soybeans, canola, flaxseed, mustard seed, safflower, sunflower, rapeseed, dry edible peas, lentils and chickpeas/garbanzo beans.
Capacity data exclude facilities used to store only rice or peanuts, oilseed crushers processing only cottonseed or peanuts, tobacco warehouses, seed warehouses and storage facilities that handle only dry edible beans, other than chickpeas/garbanzo beans.
To view USDA’s Jan. 12 Grain Stocks report, click here.