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Started High moisture corn.

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JD Seller

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We started on high moisture corn Wednesday. The yields are down but still pretty good. The first field was 25-28% moisture and 160 BPA adjusted to 15%. The next field was about the same on moisture but yielded 196 BPA.

That four week dry spell knocked the top off of the yield in the dryer soils.

We are shelling the dryer ground right now so the yields should pickup. There should be some 200 BPA corn but not as much as we have had the last few years.

There still are a lot of acres planted so I think the high corn prices are over for now.
 
I am hoping that the CBT sees your post. I would have liked to have contracted more early on this year but we had a very late spring and the crops were playing catch-up all summer. I like to see a pretty good start to the growing season to really play loose on the contracts. It creates anxiety to see the drop we had in the last week to 10 days.
 
JD,
My dad invested in a grain dryer in the mid 50s. I've always wondered how profitable is it to dry your corn vs taking a hit on high moisture, especially if they jack the price of propane?
George
 
George this corn is ran through a roller mill and put into air tight storage ( silage bags and up right silos) to ferment. It is not sold on the open market.

We will harvest dryer corn to store and sell. It just about always is cheaper to dry your own corn verses taking the dock on "wet" corn at your elevator. They charge more than it usually takes to dry the corn down.

Even with propane being a little higher I can still dry 20-22% corn down to 15% for right around 25 cents per bushel. This includes equipment, electric and propane. if you sold 20% corn your dock would be around 30-45 cents per bushel at the least. At one local elevator it would cost you over 50 cent per bushel.

So you can save money drying your own corn plus you are able to harvest faster than you can if your waiting in line to deliver wet corn. In a year like this there will be long lines if you have wet corn. The elevators can only dry corn so fast.
 
A lot of acres taken out for snaplage already, did not here yet what the yield is on some of it. Five years ago almost no one made snaplage around here but now about half the livestock guys are doing it. I want to also but the old guy is set in his ways. Have a good harvest! Tom
 
Neighbor started corn a few days ago, running about 18 percent. Yeilds are in the 230 to 240 on his first field. We been geeting 70 to 80 degress days for a week now, same for next week. Should bring er down a few more points. Hate to run the dryers on 3 dollar corn
 
Ours is about a month out.

We planted long maturing corn, and it looks like it is going to pay off. They corn was still packing starch when the September rains came.
 
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