Posted by coonie minnie on May 03, 2015 at 16:13:41 from (50.105.231.32):
In Reply to: Grain bins posted by Dave H (MI) on May 03, 2015 at 15:38:24:
Dave,
This is kind of a dangerous question, because the answer will vary a lot on where you live. If you were down state IL, it might work pretty well, most years. A lot depends on moisture at harvest, and then the weather that follows.
Being that you are from MI, you will be "blessed" with higher harvest moistures and later harvests (meaning cool or cold weather for drying in the bin) than say someone in Kansas. This means you will have more moisture to take out, and less ideal weather to do it with. And undried grain in the bin can go bad, meaning it is worthless at the market, poison to your livestock, and dangerous to you unloading it. Every year there are fatalities with grain that has gone out of condition, and someone gets trapped in a bin of moldy corn.
I'm a firm believer in on farm storage and owning your own dryer, but I'm not sure it would be a good fit for you. What are your goals with it? To try to capture better markets- like better basis than what the elevator is paying? To feed your livestock?
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