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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

you are strictly taling 'feed corn'?  I'm a bit confused.  I know very little 
about this subject ....bobford


--- On Sun, 10/19/08, Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Fall Happenings
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, October 19, 2008, 4:04 PM
> > > Propane to dry corn???  Seriously?  Is this a
> common practice?  I wonder
> > > how much fuel we use to dry crops a year?  I had
> no clue that crops were
> > > dried like that.  I guess I always thought it was
> just allowed to dry
> > > naturally.  I guess I am showing my ignorance on
> the subject.
> 
> Ear corn can dry naturally in a corn crib that allows air
> circulation but
> most corn processes use only the kernel.  Corn is now
> shelled in the field
> with a combine and the cob and stalk nothing more than crop
> residue.
> 
> Trading corn as a commodity means that the mineral or
> nutrition quality of a
> corn has no importance but moisture content is important. 
> Too high and the
> buyer just spent too much money on water, too low and the
> farmer just spent
> too much money on propane for drying.  Moisture content is
> the only test
> done at the elevator and the price paid is docked according
> to moisture
> content above a certain level.  
> 
> Don Bowen  KI6DIU
> http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html
> 
> 
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