UNSPSC 21101809: Grain fumigation system

A type of equipment that sterilizes by fumigating grain storage bins or boxes with methyl bromide, sulfural fluoride or carbon gas, in order to protect grain or fruit from insects during storage or transportation.

UNSPSC 21101809 Grain fumigation system is a Commodity code that in practice does not align with the state and local procurement activity tagged under it. The recent opportunities in the dataset show no grain fumigation systems being solicited. Instead, the tagged records document state and local purchases of agricultural chemicals, fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, and grounds maintenance products—materials used for turf and landscape maintenance, not grain storage or fumigation. The disconnect between the code name and the actual work being bought suggests either a miscoding issue in the source data or that grain fumigation represents a narrow or non-existent category of state and local procurement activity.

The issuing bodies in the records span county departments, municipal purchasing offices, school districts, and state wildlife agencies across Florida, California, Texas, Georgia, and Oregon. Representative solicitations include the City of DeBary, Florida's ITB #08-19 for agricultural chemicals and ballfield products (response due August 9, 2019); Sacramento County's RFB #2023-RFB-0171 for grounds maintenance chemicals and seeds to support the Department of Transportation, Department of Water Resources, Department of Airports, and Parks and Recreation (response due June 1, 2023, with estimated annual expenditure of $435,000); Pasco County, Florida's IFB-SP-26-074 for herbicides, fertilizers, and pesticides with contract term through September 30, 2029 and potential bi-annual CPI-based price adjustments (response due June 16, 2026); and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's intermediate procurement for 18 tons of 26-12-10-4 corn fertilizer to Sauvie Island Wildlife Area (response due May 1, 2026). The code shows no relevant recent activity that matches grain fumigation products or systems.