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jiminnd 
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Posted: 13 Nov 2019 at 8:09pm |
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The senior coffee round table was talking farming and drying corn. What is the cost to dry from 25% to 15% moisture. We know what the coop charges but wondering what actual cost is. We were all old school who raised wheat and barley before corn got so big around here. Thanks
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Chad (MN)
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Posted: 13 Nov 2019 at 8:30pm |
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Iowa state extension office has a calculating sheet that is much more precise than this but for LP: it takes an average of .018 gallons per percentage point, so multiply by 10 points to dry times the number of bushels to be dried times the current price of LP ($1.54/gal in SC MN). Then the added electricity and the labor to handle the bushels.
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Carl(NWWI)
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Posted: 13 Nov 2019 at 10:24pm |
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The place I ship my corn to charges 33cents a bushel to dry it from 25%. Seems right in line with what it would cost to dry it yourself.
Edited by Carl(NWWI) - 13 Nov 2019 at 10:25pm
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Lonn
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Posted: 14 Nov 2019 at 6:43am |
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For 25% here, the Co-op charges 49¢ a bushel to get down to 15%...... could be storage dry which I think is 13.5%. Either way it's a lot.
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Posted: 14 Nov 2019 at 7:31am |
Keep in mind every years corn crop is a little different to dry. This year I am seeing a variation in moisture going down the rows of about 4%, some is 21.5% and some is 24%, the crop also seems to be drying harder, taking more heat and more time to dry from 24% than in the past. You never know until you get into it and see what the costs really are. And if it stays cold like this that always increases the costs of drying, heating 25* air or heating 55* air makes a difference.
I would say my cost is not as high 33 cents a bushel this year, but I have all my drying equipment paid for years ago too. And the faster you want to dry it the more it costs you, but the slower it is to get your harvest finished. Always so many variables, like everything else in farming...
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Posted: 14 Nov 2019 at 8:10am |
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Doesn't drying it faster cause the test weight to be lighter? That's what one farmer told me.
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Posted: 14 Nov 2019 at 8:28am |
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On the same note, anyone having trouble getting propane? Just talked to guys who are on a list for next delivery.
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Posted: 14 Nov 2019 at 8:38am |
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There is grain shrinkage that happens during grain drying. So, yes wet bushels harvested will never equal dried bushels at elevator or grain bin. It is kinda similar to the "Angels share" that is loss during fermentation of bourbon or whiskey... Which incidentally also uses corn grain as a main ingredient.
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Posted: 14 Nov 2019 at 9:22am |
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On the same note, anyone having trouble getting propane? Just talked to guys who are on a list for next delivery. |
Supposedly a shortage of trucks and/or drivers. Seems like a bunch of bull.... both the shortage of natural gas and the shortage of drivers.
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Posted: 14 Nov 2019 at 12:03pm |
LP prices going up here. Seller says there's plenty of it, they just can't get it here fast enough. Farmers are using a bunch to dry, and now suddenly it's cold and home and businesses are ordering more than usual.
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Posted: 16 Nov 2019 at 7:21am |
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.23 cents here from 22% to 15.5 corn. It will take more propane the colder the temperature is outside. When it gets cold our burner doesn’t cycle anymore and runs continuous.
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Tbone95
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Posted: 17 Nov 2019 at 6:32am |
The place I deliver charges $.045 per point per bushel anything over 15%. I have a tractor powered dryer, and figuring just the price of diesel and propane they can do it a little cheaper than I can. If I count the hours the tractor sits there screaming at the top of its lungs, there’s no comparison. If I was set up with natural gas and electric, could compete. Corn is really high moisture this year and it’s killing me. Yesterday was a nice sunny day and the second load shipped was almost 2 percent higher than the first. What gives??? 
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Posted: 17 Nov 2019 at 7:46pm |
T bone - I think grain grading can have an error here and there. Maybe the first load was wetter and they got the test wrong. Or vice a versa. We were a hauling corn out of a bin one Friday a few years ago at 15% then Monday morning they came up with 19% on the first load. Thankfully they did retest the load before I went to the dump and got 15% like the rest of the bin. I think there was water in the vacuum tube on the probe from the weekend.rw
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Posted: 18 Nov 2019 at 7:11am |
rw wrote:
T bone - I think grain grading can have an error here and there. Maybe the first load was wetter and they got the test wrong. Or vice a versa. We were ahauling corn out of a bin one Friday a few years ago at 15% then Monday morning they came up with 19% on the first load. Thankfully they did retest the load before I went to the dump and got 15% like the rest of the bin. I think there was water in the vacuum tube on the probe from the weekend.rw |
Maybe so, but I don't think so......this corn IS really wet. Sticks to the sides of a gravity box. You can feel it in your hands. Not like there was night and day difference, but like a 1.5%. Just another kick in the sack. Ol' sack's gettin' tired of that these days.
Edited by Tbone95 - 18 Nov 2019 at 7:11am
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