Need some wisdom on this question.Beans are taking a long time to dry down in the field and I would like to know if I can go ahead, harvest them, store them in a bin half full of 8% moisture last years beans, turn on the air and let air run into the bin for a couple weeks? Will they dry down? Moisture in beans to be cut is running close to 17.5% moisture!! Thanks for your wisdom on this as I ve never done this before!
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Beans that wet no more than a few feet deep and I would not air the 8 percent beans out anymore. 8 percent beans need to go to another bin and the wet beans in the air
bin no more than 3 feet deep. Need a few days of dry warm air to boot. Can you do a basis contract with a local elevator that has facilities to dry beans? Keep the combine
rolling.
bin no more than 3 feet deep. Need a few days of dry warm air to boot. Can you do a basis contract with a local elevator that has facilities to dry beans? Keep the combine
rolling.
A basis contract essentially means you agree to market your crop through a buyer with a stated cost of being so many cents under the CBOT. A basis contract does not set a final price that you receive on a per bushel basis so you are free within the terms of the contract to see if the price rises. Some basis contracts have periods of 30 or 60 days. Some companies will allow you to rollover that contract for additional time at the cost of several cents per bushel. Given that your beans are wet there will be an additional cost for drying the crop. Call your elevator and talk to other farmers who do business there to make sure you are comfortable doing this. Right now you are facing watching your beans sit in the field subject to the weather and deterioration. Not a good feeling.
Natural air drying without heat won't make your 8 percent beans any dryer. Depending on where you're at and the size of fan and the depth of the 17 beans I'm really hesitant to tell you you'll be able to get then down to 13.Anything over 14.5 here and we run lp gas with the burner set tokick out around 100 degrees not very deep and it works good for us. We try and leave 6"-1' of wetter beans to blend with the dryer bottom beans.
tomstractorsandtoys
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Local elevators will not take any beans over 15%. Tried on monday and they were 18% hope to try again this afternoon. If mine are above 15 today they will go in a bin with a fan for a week or so. Tom
Bin is 27? wide with about 4,000 bu. Full of last years beans, level across, bin has a 10hp axial fan . We?re located in central Minnesota, 45 degrees outside today!My plan is to put them on top of the dry beans, turn on the fan, let it run for a couple weeks. ?Warmer ? weather is coming but cool and wet next week! Am I taking a big risk of beans going out of condition???
caterpillar guy
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Put them in and don't stop the fan till you are done rain or shine. Last year we put 18 moisture in on top of some dry beans. Were still 16 in January. Run fan pulling air from the top to prevent moisture form the ground being sucked in to the bin. Also on sunny days the air space above the beans will work like a warm air supply. Ours came out at about 12.5-13.5 in May. I still have some of them in the bin now.
I think beans have to go up also. Short crop last year with all the plowed down beans then lots not planted this year. Beans have been climbing the last few days.
I think beans have to go up also. Short crop last year with all the plowed down beans then lots not planted this year. Beans have been climbing the last few days.
caterpillar guy
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Should have said this is in Central MI.
Tom OConnor
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You would be much better off if you blend the ultra dry beans with the wet ones and then run enough air to keep them at outside temp. They will equalize in moisture very quickly. Large grain
elevators have made millions of dollars doing this for years.
elevators have made millions of dollars doing this for years.
A difference between farming in the Midwest where you are and here in the NE. Most elevators here will dry beans up to 20 percent in a tough fall year. Normally, even in the drying system they don't want them much above 16.5-17.0 percent. Also, where I am we are modulated by Lake Ontario and Lake Erie to a greater degree so the days of natural drying in the field become few by November. Further, that translates into greater difficulty in hoping that air alone will dry beans in an air bin. I would never do nothing past a bottom dry of a few feet with no burner this late and even in September it is a gamble if in a wet spell. If I were the OP I would get the 8 percent beans out as it does nothing for efficiency. As far as blending a guy better do one heck of a job such as running two streams of beans almost into one stream when it hits the bottom of the truck, wagon or bin. Most elevators here probe HARD so if they hit a pocket of those 18 percent beans you can figure on hauling your load back home.
coonie minnie
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I've blended 8% and 17% beans by running two streams into the truck auger going into an outbound semi, and had 13-13.5% moisture on the loads, never had any surprises.
If you have a way to pull the old beans out and mix with the new, that would be much better than just putting wet beans on top of dry. That could turn into a big mess.
If you have a way to pull the old beans out and mix with the new, that would be much better than just putting wet beans on top of dry. That could turn into a big mess.
caterpillar guy
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Not the fan on the top of the bin. I mean to pull the air down through the beans. The air in the top of the bin will heat some from the sun. Thus work as a drying effect. If the air is pushed from the bottom and out the top it can pull moisture from the wet ground around the fan area.
Though if you could run some out of the bin into a truck as you ship them as others have said that would be your best option as they would dry your wet beans and moisten your over dry beans.
Though if you could run some out of the bin into a truck as you ship them as others have said that would be your best option as they would dry your wet beans and moisten your over dry beans.
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