High propane demand in 2019 has sparked consideration of more on-farm propane storage.

Dan Pannier is the Propane Operations Manager for GROWMARK based in Illinois. He tells Brownfield they have pushed farmers to try and size their propane storage more appropriately to their dryer capacity.

“Sometimes that can be a little bit hard to justify because it is once in four or five years that you need that kind of storage to manage your crop drying needs but yes I do think there were a lot who increased their on farm storage.”

He says that does not mean those farmers won’t need more propane, but it gets them further into the season.

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