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East Central Ia | More southern climates typically have more time to dry down in the field. Up north we push our maturities so we typically black layer 2-3 weeks prior to our first typical frost date. By this late in the season natural drying occurs very slowly in a normal year.
If you don't have any issues letting your grain dry down in the field, IE extra field losses from poor stand ability or header losses from harvesting dry corn etc then a dryer might not make sense for you.
If you typically have to dry your corn one way or another and are paying an elevator to dry it... then owning your own dryer will pay you back VERY VERY quickly.
We typically start corn harvest towards the end of Sept, this year will be a week or ten days sooner, and our normal first frost date is around Oct 10th. At that point there isn't much field drying occurring. Our typical ave harvest moisture is around 22-23%. | |
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Drying Corn
