Re: corn question

Posted by Gerald J. on October 19, 2006 at 20:01:58 from (67.0.103.123):

In Reply to: corn question posted by Chris in WI on October 19, 2006 at 07:13:34:

In the days of cheap drying fuel and lots of corn borers and corn not resistant to corn borers (skinny cob connections to the stalk) the universities worked it out that 21% was the optimum picking efficiency. Now that propane and natural gas cost more than ten times as much, lots of corn has some resistance (fat cob stalks) or even BT in the corn, the optimum picking moisture has to be lower but I've not seen any new publications about it. Unless the corn came from Pioneer which seems to have a problem standing in the fall, waiting for lower moisture works quite well, last year my corn came out of the field at 14.7% as measured by the elevator (two points wetter than my hand shelled samples on my moisture tester) which avoided drying charges so long as I sold it and didn't store it. To store it I would have had to have paid drying and shrink down to 14%. Fortunately I had sold most of it at a fine price in the summer ahead of time and then got a 50 cent LDP so I took the $1.85 cash that the corn got up to the next week and avoided shrink, drying, and storage costs. There was some corn down and some ears that sprouted in the beans this year but not enough to have paid for drying had I harvested earlier.

Corn that sits through wet snow has a greater tendency to rot at the bottom and fall over so lots of snow hurts, but I have seen fields stand until spring.

Gerald J.

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