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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