Guides
Practical guides written against the capacities and prices we publish: how to size a machine, what a plant costs to run, and how to get feed, silage and shelling right on the farm.
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Each guide carries tables, steps and worked arithmetic so you can check the reasoning, not just read a conclusion.
Buyer guide · updated 2026-10-16
Eight categories, eight published entry prices. The useful question is not who exports to Africa but which part of the range your budget actually lands in.
Buyer guide · updated 2026-10-16
Freight on a small part costs more than the part. That single fact decides what belongs on the first order — and the after-sales questions worth settling before you pay.
Buyer guide · updated 2026-10-16
The China-or-India question is decided on four dimensions, not on country. Here is the framework, with our published models and prices as the worked example on one side.
Buyer guide · updated 2026-10-16
Export orders fail on details that domestic orders never touch. Here is what a Chinese rice mill factory should state in writing, and the published capacity and price bands our own models sit in.
Buyer guide · updated 2026-10-16
Feed pellets and chopped forage are usually bought by the same farm, so buyers search for both at once. Here are the published capacity, power and price bands across all eight of our models.
Buyer guide · updated 2026-10-16
Four rice mill models published at under US$1,000 a set, with capacity, power and price side by side — and how to work out which stage of the process your money should buy first.
Buyer guide · updated 2026-10-16
The paperwork for a farm machinery import falls into four groups and comes from four different parties. Here is which group each document belongs to and exactly what the supplier produces.
Buyer guide · updated 2026-10-16
Registries tell you where to look. This is what a clean answer looks like once you get there — five checks that separate a manufacturer from a reseller, and the three you can finish in an afternoon.
Budget planning · updated 2026-10-14
The purchase price of the mill is usually the smallest part of what a maize milling plant costs to get running. This guide breaks the budget into the components that actually decide the total, so you can see which variables are worth negotiating and which are fixed.
Feed production · updated 2026-10-14
Pelleting turns a loose feed mixture into a form chickens cannot selectively eat around, which is why pellet feeding usually cuts waste. The process is short, but the order of operations and the moisture content decide whether the pellets hold together or crumble.
Machine selection · updated 2026-10-14
Choosing rice mill capacity is a matching exercise, not a search for the biggest machine. Get it wrong upwards and you pay for capacity you never use; get it wrong downwards and you turn away customers at the peak of the season. Here is how to land in the right band.
Forage and feeding · updated 2026-10-14
Good silage is made in a narrow window and protected by two things: air exclusion and speed. Most silage that spoils was not spoiled by the chopper, it was spoiled by being too wet, packed too loosely, or sealed too late. This is the sequence dairy farms follow.
Machine selection · updated 2026-10-14
Farmers usually buy a tractor by horsepower and then discover the implements they need will not work behind it. The reliable order is the other way round: decide the jobs, then the implements, then the tractor that can pull them on your soil.
Equipment decisions · updated 2026-10-14
Hand shelling costs nothing to buy and a great deal to run. The question is not whether a machine is faster, it is at what volume the machine becomes cheaper than the labour it replaces, and whether the kernels come out good enough to sell.
Business planning · updated 2026-10-14
A rice milling business fails for two ordinary reasons: the machine is sized for the wrong volume, or the mill cannot get paddy and cannot get paid. This guide works through the sequence we see successful small mills follow, and shows the arithmetic you can do before spending anything.
