Steel buildings for farm storage can help ensure your farm’s financial success through reduced construction costs. In addition, the strength and durability of steel will reduce long-term utilities, maintenance, repairs, and insurance costs. Allied Steel Buildings kits will easily adapt to your changing farm equipment storage needs, and extend the farm equipment shed’s lifespan.

Typical Farm Equipment Stored in Sheds

The most common equipment and machinery stored in farm sheds includes tractors, balers, combines, plows, mowers, and sprayers. However, you may also need to store produce, feed, hay, and other commodities in the space. Protecting your agricultural investments requires a durable and safe structure, like those built with pre-engineered steel buildings.

Traditional Materials Used for Farm Storage Buildings

Traditionally, wood was a practical choice for building farm equipment sheds. However, builders can find it difficult to use wood for clear span construction which reduces the usable space of the equipment shed. In addition, labor-intensive wood construction requires skilled carpenters, which can be a problem considering today’s significant labor shortages.

Costs

For a traditional wood machine shed, prices range from $45 to $65 ft2.

Longevity

Many prefer wood barns for their traditional looks and charm, but problems with wood construction may impact its integrity and longevity, prompting many to consider alternative building materials like steel:

• Wood barns deteriorate over time, losing their good looks, reducing their resale value.
• Wood sheds need frequent repairs and painting to reduce the deterioration of the wood.
• The vulnerability of wood to seasonal climate variation, like humidity and temperature, allows the wood to contract and expand with changing moisture levels. Over time this will damage the wood and barn.
• Damaging insects, termites, and carpenter ants can infest wood sheds, which can lead to costly maintenance and repairs.

Prefab Steel Buildings for Farm Sheds

Steel farm equipment sheds use heavy-duty steel beams that allow clear span construction. The exceptional strength of the beams supports the building’s loads. Therefore, farm equipment storage building plans do not need to include interior columns, but do require a series of concrete footers, a concrete slab is optional.

Allied Steel Buildings farm equipment sheds will protect your farm’s machinery, produce, etc. Prefab steel barns provide many benefits over wood construction for securing and storing your costly farming investments:

• The strength of a well-maintained steel barn protects everything inside it from severe weather, predators, corrosion, rust, and UV damage.
• Steel barns minimize long-term expenses by lessening repairs and maintenance due to moisture, pests, and natural disasters.
• Steel barn designs protect the barn’s integrity and can even lower your insurance rates.
• Steel barn plans that include batted insulation or thermally insulated metal panels will protect the barn’s interior from excessive heat and cold, and reduce your monthly energy bills.
• Allied Steel Buildings paint finishes provide multiple-decade warranties, protecting against cracking, chipping, peeling, and blistering.
• A properly maintained and built Allied Steel building can last decades.

Costs

Disclaimer: Construction prices fluctuate drastically. Please use the following information as a general guide, understanding that material costs, supply chain issues, and consumer demand due to current events can significantly impact building costs.

Farm machinery shed prices range between $12 and $19 per ft2. However, determining the exact cost of your farm equipment shed depends on the size, design complexity and finishings, and steel prices.

Prefabricated Steel Buildings Lower Building Costs

Quick and affordable steel buildings are the best solution for farm building plans. These buildings take roughly 33% less time to construct than traditional methods, which reduces building costs.

Allied Steel Pre-Engineered buildings reduce erection time by cutting each piece to fit precisely with others, to create an efficient construction method that ensures smooth sheds with clean lines.

Furthermore, Allied Steel sheds minimize construction waste to reduce material costs. Ready to assemble, precision-cut steel buildings hasten the construction timeline and lower material and labor costs.

Structural Properties and Integrity

The strong structural properties and integrity of a well-maintained steel barn will lower your long-term costs by limiting repairs and maintenance due to natural disasters, moisture, and pests, ensuring the integrity and strength of the barn. In addition, an insulated steel shed will lessen energy and insurance costs. Allied Steel building’s paint finishes provide multiple-decade warranties, protecting against blistering, peeling, cracking, chipping, further contributing to your equipment barn’s longevity.

Sizing Options

Allied Steel Building Framing Dimension offer endless machine shed sizes options to accommodate your specialized farming equipment and machines. Our clear span structures accommodate heights of 8-feet to 60-feet, limitless lengths, and narrow to wide widths.

Narrow Width

Prefabricated steel buildings can accommodate small machine shed plans that require narrow widths as small as 20 feet.

Wide Width

For a large farm storage building, you can design prefabricated steel buildings with 300-feet of unobstructed space and endless widths, with a few interior columns.

Allied Steel Buildings also offers accessories and upgrades to accommodate any farm storage building plans or machinery building plans: insulation, windows, doors, ventilation systems, partition walls, overhangs, and more. Allied Steel Buildings allow you to increase or adapt your agricultural building’s size as your needs change.

Using Allied Steel Buildings to Update or Add Prefab Steel Equipment Sheds to Your Farm

Pre-engineered Allied Steel Buildings are an affordable, robust, flexible, and eco-friendly method for building equipment and machinery sheds for a farm. Long-lasting and durable prefabricated steel buildings will save you money during and after construction. Furthermore, Allied Steel Buildings allow the design flexibility to achieve your farm’s storage needs successfully.

We strongly suggest you contact our building experts at Allied Steel today to help you design an equipment shed for your farm.