Approximate U.S. commercial off-farm grain storage facilities covered by the June 2025 survey.
USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, 2025 ↗INDUSTRY FACTSHEET
Warehouse & silo rentals facts 2026.
Warehouse, farm-product storage, silo, and commercial-space rental facts with regional operating context.
DIRECT ANSWER
What do warehouse & silo rentals statistics show?
Warehouse and silo operators manage availability, capacity, commodity or inventory requirements, inspections, access, renewals, and billing. U.S. commercial grain storage alone included about 7,900 off-farm facilities and 11.8 billion bushels of capacity in 2025, illustrating why structured account and capacity follow-up matters.
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U.S. off-farm commercial grain storage capacity reported in 2025.
USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, 2025 ↗People employed in EU transportation and storage services in 2022.
Eurostat, 2022 ↗REGIONAL COMPARISON
One industry.
Six market contexts.
These measures are not a like-for-like market-size ranking. The table preserves the source definition and explains what each regional signal means operationally.
| Region | Definition | Official baseline | Operational interpretation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | All 50 states and the District of Columbia. | The SBA counted 36.2 million U.S. small businesses in its 2025 profile release. | Official classifications distinguish general, refrigerated, farm-product, and other warehousing, while USDA separately enumerates commercial grain storage. | SBA Office of Advocacy, 2025 ↗ |
| Southeast United States | Pipetidy's target states: Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia. | These seven states contain about 5.49 million small businesses and roughly 8.8 million small-business employees. | Ports, inland distribution, manufacturing, food, timber, cotton, poultry, and grain create varied capacity and handling requirements. | SBA state profiles, 2025 ↗ |
| United Kingdom | England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. | The UK had about 114,000 VAT/PAYE-registered transport and storage businesses and 141,000 agriculture, forestry, and fishing businesses in 2025. | Dense logistics markets combine commercial property, fulfilment, cold storage, and agricultural storage within a constrained land market. | Office for National Statistics, 2025 ↗ |
| Northern Europe | Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden for this factsheet series. | Eurostat's structural business statistics cover detailed enterprise activity across EU and EFTA markets, including transport, storage, rental, repair, and trade. | Ports, forestry, seafood, grain, and dispersed population centers create specialized storage and seasonal capacity requirements. | Eurostat structural business statistics ↗ |
| Central Europe | Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and Hungary for this factsheet series. | Central Europe contains several of the EU's largest freight and industrial markets; Germany and Poland together produced almost 35% of EU road-freight tonne-kilometres in 2024. | Manufacturing and cross-border distribution corridors make contract milestones, capacity, and renewal visibility especially important. | Eurostat road freight, 2025 ↗ |
| Australia & New Zealand | Australia and New Zealand, reported separately where official statistics differ. | Australia had 261,109 transport, postal, and warehousing businesses in 2025-26; New Zealand transport, postal, and warehousing sales reached NZ$11.75 billion in the June 2026 quarter. | Long supply chains, export agriculture, and seasonal harvests make capacity, access, handling, and renewal coordination critical. | ABS and Stats NZ, 2026 ↗ |
OPERATING RISKS
Where customer context
falls through.
Space or capacity enquiries not followed up while availability changes
Site, commodity, access, insurance, and handling requirements fragmented
Renewal and vacancy dates not connected to the account
Storage, handling, transport, and invoice commitments misaligned
CRM WORKFLOW
Enquiry. Work.
Invoice.
The useful CRM layer is a reliable handoff from the first enquiry through delivery, exceptions, billing, and the next opportunity.
METHOD & LIMITS
What the evidence
does—and does not—show.
Methodology
Pipetidy Research selects primary government, statistical-agency, and publisher-original sources. Each figure retains its source period, geography, and classification; unlike measures are not combined into a synthetic global total.
Limitations
Industry definitions differ by country and statistical system. Regional baselines describe the wider operating market and should not be read as a like-for-like market-size comparison or as evidence of Pipetidy customer outcomes.
Editorial disclosure
Hudson Paul is a cofounder of Pipetidy. P101 LLC publishes Pipetidy Research. The operational interpretation reflects Pipetidy's product perspective and is kept separate from source facts.
Corrections
Send newer primary evidence or corrections to hello@pipetidy.com. Material changes update the page date and downloadable files.
SUGGESTED CITATION
Paul, Hudson. “Warehouse and silo rental facts 2026.” Pipetidy Research, P101 LLC. Updated 2026-09-22. https://pipetidy.com/industry-facts/warehouse-silo-rental-statistics
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Clear answers.
Qualified claims.
Each answer preserves the geography, period, and classification of its supporting evidence.
How large is the warehouse & silo rentals market?
Warehouse and silo operators manage availability, capacity, commodity or inventory requirements, inspections, access, renewals, and billing. U.S. commercial grain storage alone included about 7,900 off-farm facilities and 11.8 billion bushels of capacity in 2025, illustrating why structured account and capacity follow-up matters. The figures on this page should be read with their stated geography, period, and industry classification.
Which regions does this warehouse & silo rentals factsheet cover?
The factsheet covers the United States, Pipetidy's seven-state Southeast target region, the United Kingdom, Northern Europe, Central Europe, and Australia and New Zealand.
How were the statistics selected?
Pipetidy Research uses primary government, statistical-agency, and publisher-original sources, preserves the source period and classification, and avoids combining unlike regional measures into a single global total.
SOURCES
Official data first.
Scope made clear.
Sources were last checked September 22, 2026. If a figure cannot be traced to its primary publisher, it does not belong on this page.
USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service — Approximate U.S. commercial off-farm grain storage facilities covered by the June 2025 survey. ↗Eurostat — People employed in EU transportation and storage services in 2022. ↗SBA Office of Advocacy, 2025 — The SBA counted 36.2 million U.S. small businesses in its 2025 profile release. ↗SBA state profiles, 2025 — These seven states contain about 5.49 million small businesses and roughly 8.8 million small-business employees. ↗Office for National Statistics, 2025 — The UK had about 114,000 VAT/PAYE-registered transport and storage businesses and 141,000 agriculture, forestry, and fishing businesses in 2025. ↗Eurostat structural business statistics — Eurostat's structural business statistics cover detailed enterprise activity across EU and EFTA markets, including transport, storage, rental, repair, and trade. ↗Eurostat road freight, 2025 — Central Europe contains several of the EU's largest freight and industrial markets; Germany and Poland together produced almost 35% of EU road-freight tonne-kilometres in 2024. ↗ABS and Stats NZ, 2026 — Australia had 261,109 transport, postal, and warehousing businesses in 2025-26; New Zealand transport, postal, and warehousing sales reached NZ$11.75 billion in the June 2026 quarter. ↗
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