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Central Indiana | We start at 24% and put it in drying bins. If you leave and come back 2 weeks later and it’s 19% it goes from 240 yield to 225…what gives? I think the sun drying the corn out along with wind takes away from kernel weights thus reducing harvestable weight from the field. Same as cooking corn in a dryer vs letting it dry from air flow only. When you add heat to something you cook out moisture and that leads to less weight. The earlier you can get it out and dried with high amounts of air the better the kernal weights are. Some could be from header loss or grinding it up at drier moistures but in my experience the shelling of corn at the head is very minimal and more is lost to rotor grinding | |
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Phantom yield loss
