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Iowa County, IA | What moisture should a hand sample be before cribbing ear corn. Going in a wood crib.
Thanks,
Chris |
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| throw ten ears in tub of water,,,when 8 float its time to go. That's how old timers did it. They used the stock tank. |
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central MN | I usually start when sample shows around 21% |
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Interstate 35 North ia | I would guess around 20% but that's just a guess . The amish around here put up some that was to wet a couple years ago and there was a lot of damage when they shelled it . |
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n.c.iowa | Depends on the crib, round wire crib I'd put nothing in them over 18%, a narrow wood crib with good air flow that picked clean, a guy could go 22-23%. |
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NE Iowa | When I was growing up we never had a moisture tester and did the float test also. We would pick if 7 out of 10 floated. |
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ncia | float test was good, but if it gets to be the 20th of oct. just go |
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n.c.iowa | idalivered - 9/30/2017 08:20
float test was good, but if it gets to be the 20th of oct. just go
I'd agree, but according to my dad, a lot of ear corn was harvested in nov., he often tells of a half section just down the road from us, that he helped a custom picker guy harvest in dec.- Jan.. he said he has never been that cold since. |
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SE Iowa | You also need to wait to temperature fall below 40 if I remember right. If you don't corn get hot and you have blue eyes. Dad would wait till late October. |
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NE Iowa | A friends birthday is Oct 13th, he always said they never started before his birthday and they used the float test 7 out of 10. |
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| We use to pt corn as high as 25% corn in our wire Behlen corn cribs, 2,000 bu each. We had wire tunnels that made a "+" on the floor I a wooden ventelator that set in the middle of the crib that went to up to the level of the roof eaves. Also had an old kerosene drier on skids that had a fan powered off the flat belt pulley on a tractor that we connected the floor tunnels to help dry the corn. In good weather we just ran the fan, on cold or wet days we would fire the heater in it. Would take close to a week to dry a crib full. |
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North Central Illinois | Dad talked of picking corn one February. Said he was the first one picking corn that year. Everyone else was waiting for October.
I have a friend at church who talked about picking corn and his nose felt like hard rubber by the middle of the day. He was very happy when the picker tractor got a cab. |
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Iowa County, IA | Thanks for the information. I used ride in the 7045 AC with Grandpa and hitch wagons to the John Deere 300 for him. I was way too young to recall or even comprehend what moisture we were going at.
Thanks again,
Chris |
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southern MN | If it gets lower than 18% you get terrible shelling loss, especially with today's hybreds.
If you get over 24% actual you need to know your crib, your air temps, and how long you wish to store it. A skinny crib, a cold winter, and if you are grinding a load a week out of it to use the wetter stuff up by March, you can put in the higher end.
We put in 33% in a couple of 'those' years, but it was a gamble and had to be using it and there was some issues. Needed the cattle feed and the corn didn't get any better those 2 years.... 28% worked ok in our wood crib, our climate, gringing out the early loads by March.......
Paul |
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South cental Ohio | Everyone has given you good advice. All I can tell you is that when I picked corn and put it in the wire cribs, anything over around 18% would bridge bad when it came time to grind feed out of them. The dryer the corn you put in a crib , the easier it will come out but you'll sacrifice some shelling in the field. The wetter you pick the less field loss you will have but you take more chance on it keeping and possibly harder conditions getting it out of the crib. All depends. If you aren't picking much and using a small, narrow wooden crib and it won't take you long,,,, then watch the weather and wait for ideal conditions. |
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southern MN | Dad and my uncle shared a mounted 2ME picker on a F-20 tractor without a starter, hand crank (park on a hill...).
They never combined any corn until the 80s. I hooked a lot of wagons in my day.....
Probably picked 80-100 acres a year with that and 3 barge boxes for 25 years.
Paul |
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| OK, following along in this conversation- How big was the largest corn crib you guys filled. We had a wooden crib we shelled a touch over 10.000 bushel out of one year, but it had a high percentage of shelled corn in it. It had a 2"x8" across the top to set the elevator chute with a long ways to the bottom. Scared sh!tle$$ when I had to help dad set that thing!!! |
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southern MN | Our wooded crib, double with a 12 foot alley/shed space between, holds about 4000 bu. The top is flat, and could spoil pretty easy as quite a few feet of corn is piled on a flat floor up there, need to be shoveled off and fed before winter was over. Dad put in a flat belt on pulleys along the peak, fed corn into one end onto the belt and the corn would travel to the far end, or wherever you placed a knockoff, never had to move the elevator just 10 minutes to move the knockoff.
Paul |
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n.c.iowa | Boog, you guys were corn picking BTO's......
I've seen a couple of kerosene fired corn dryers at auctions and in groves, never seen one in action though.
Some of the bigger round wire cribs here had the internal standing wooden air chute, but they looked like theywere always busted up needing repair. |
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ND | As I recall my Father & Uncle farmed together they had some cribbed corn in snowfence in a circle but had bought a new MM corn sheller model E & did a lot of custom shelling-Dad said the fun did not last long because it was a lot of work with a IH M. |
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ECIL | Just curious, are you cribbing the corn for feed or do you plan on shelling it later? |
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What moisture to crib ear corn?
