So much depends on location!!! These responses come from across the US- some areas need little or no drying of crops. You mention milo- you must be mid-country or more South. Here, Ive been drying EVERY year since 1976! Bin dryer with stirator, then after babysitting that all night after harvesting, milking cows,.... bought a used (1979) Farm Fans AB8B, set up a wet bin with auto load, auto shutoff when empty.
I like the security of keeping crop at home, ability to market wherever. Send it to town, pay for their bins, dryers,etc., tied to selling to them? Not for me. They are working for them, not you. I had empty bins when the local guy went belly up, same place I used to store. Took 65 neighbors for a million one. My empty bins looked real cheap that year!
Years ago I did some custom drying for a neighbor, before he had bins. Charged him 2x the gas- we were both satisfied with that.
IDK exact cost now, but I just dried 25 acres of my son"s corn, gas was $1.79 a gallon, he used about $1000 of gas, not sure on final yield, but I think the monitor showed around 140 bpa. I haven"t measured the bin.
Bottom line, I always figure farm drying/storage is better than town, for so many reasons. Little FF dryer was $2800, wet bin wasn"t much, under a buck a bushel capacity. Shuts off by itself in the middle of the night when it runs out of corn.
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