|
Corn as kernals will spoil if it is much over 14% moisture. Technically, so will ear corn. Time factors into it too, you can store 18% corn ok for a cold month or 3. But, if you have it in a crib of some type, that is not more than 7 feet thick (or a round crib not more than double that...) with opennings for air to flow through it, you can store corn on the ear up to 24% quite safely. The airflow is _very_ important tho, so you need something that allows air to flow. I've put 30% moisture corn in my wooden crib, and had reasonable good success in this cold Minnesota climate. Some put up a ring of wooden snow fence, fill it, put another slightly smaller ring of snowfence on top, & fill that. This can stroe corn reasonably well - again in this cold climate, and you want to get it used or moved by the time warm spring comes. Where do you live, cold, or dry, or ???? Cribs are wooden with 1x4 slats; round or rectangular wire cribs, or a few metal cribs with slotted sheet metal sides & a tappered bottom for unloading - on short stilts. --->Paul
|
