I've had a bunch of threads on Machinery Talk today about building bins for drying and storing corn (no beans). Here is the one that has the link to all of the others:

https://talk.newagtalk.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=1227706&posts=1&start=1

I'm kindof coming to the conclusion that I can't justify switching away from grain bags unless I look at it from the perspective of how much my production will increase as a result of more timely harvest.

Are there really good studies that quantify the yield loss based on bad timing for harvest?

I would say one could argue that every day after black layer, your yield is going down. It might be super slow and barely noticeable one year and the next year the day after you  hit black layer you might have a 100 mph wind storm that lays it all flat and if you had harvested it the day it black layered you could have paid for an entire bin setup that year.

I'd love to see something that says:

• At 13% moisture on average you lose 8% vs harvesting at 20% moisture
• At 15.5% moisture on average you lose 4% vs harvesting at 20% moisture
• At 18% moisture on average you lose 0.5% vs harvesting at 20% moisture