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wally b

10-18-2006 09:07:18




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I have about an acre of feed corn that I am going to harvest into a v shaped corn crob in my barn and feed out to my chickens next year. I'm worried because it's late in the season here in oregon and fixing to stasrt raining all the time. About half the ears are denting and some are dry but most are still moist when you cut the kernel open. Should I keep waiting?

wally




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paul

10-18-2006 23:06:19




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 Re: corn harvest need advice in reply to wally b, 10-18-2006 09:07:18  
If not dented, it will not keep on the ear. One year - the last year we planted 110 day corn here - we had a very cool summer. Beans, corn, would not mature.

Had 9 acres of 110 day corn, and it froze off but was not dented. Stayed milky. Fortunately that was a very low-snow winter, & I ended up combining the corn in February. It was perhaps at 30% moisture by then. I was combining in 6 inches of snow on the ground. Anyhow, put it in the grainery, & fed it out to the cattle. It was of course freezing temps, and I needed to get rid of it before anything thawed out, or it woulda molded right quick!

I have put 30% moisture corn in the crib some years, with only a little mold problem, but here we get cold & stay cold, and one needs to use up that wet a corn before spring/ above freezing temps.

I think in your climate, you will need to wait. The corn needs to get down to 24% moisture to store in a crib. That would be all dented, all hard kernals.

For an acre, can you hand-harvest a little every day or 3, and feed it as you harvest?

--->Paul

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jddriver

10-18-2006 15:05:46




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 Re: corn harvest need advice in reply to wally b, 10-18-2006 09:07:18  
Ear corn will store way-way wetter than shelled corn.We started picjing when it got to 25% and never had any problems



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Grub

10-18-2006 14:42:24




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 Re: corn harvest need advice in reply to wally b, 10-18-2006 09:07:18  
Hey Wally I feel your pain. I live in Yamhill Co. and we can't raise field corn like our brothers in the Midwest. They get low humidity to dry corn in the fall and we get ours in the summer. It's no wonder that it all gets chopped for silage here.
My limited "success" w/ field corn is to plant early and get it out of the field by the end of September when we still have some warm, dry air. I pull the husk down to encourage more drying and lay the ears on a concrete slab to capture the radiant energy. I throw them to the chickens on the cob and they pick them clean.
You would have to have a source of warm,dry air to dry what you've got enough to store it.

Grub

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RustyFarmall

10-18-2006 12:59:30




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 Re: corn harvest need advice in reply to wally b, 10-18-2006 09:07:18  
If the corn is still carrying that much moisture it is way too wet to store away in any kind of crib. You will end up with a rotten, moldy mess.



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James2

10-18-2006 20:13:26




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 Re: corn harvest need advice in reply to RustyFarmall, 10-18-2006 12:59:30  
Listen to RustyF, it is too wet to crib unless you have some method of forcing air thru it.



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RodInNS

10-18-2006 11:40:07




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 Re: corn harvest need advice in reply to wally b, 10-18-2006 09:07:18  
We've always been told that once the frost hit, that's all the growing the corn is going to do. After that it's all about drydown. I'm no expert on storing corn in a crib, but to my way of thinking it could dry in the crib as well as the field. I think if it was mine, and frosted, I'd go...

Rod



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nballen

10-18-2006 09:52:53




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 Re: corn harvest need advice in reply to wally b, 10-18-2006 09:07:18  
What part of Oregon? (I grew up in Ontario)

In Eastern Oregon (anything east of the Cascades), you can just let it go until it "freeze-dries" sometime in January / Feburary / March. I've seen this done with grain corn (shelled at harvest).

West of the cascades, I've got no idea. :(

Not much help here, huh?

Nathaniel



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wally b

10-18-2006 09:56:27




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 Re: corn harvest need advice in reply to nballen, 10-18-2006 09:52:53  
I live west of the cascades---wet wet winters.



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edchainsaw

10-19-2006 18:45:05




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 Re: corn harvest need advice in reply to wally b, 10-18-2006 09:56:27  
it sounds WAY to wet but I feel your pain as we are in the same boat right now.. nothing is drying or ready even the beans.

IF IT WERE ME -- ok -- Pick off a very little bit this week and watch it for a few days..(if you can put some air on it some how I would)

then a week or so from now pick a little bit more



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