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NW Central Ohio | Was thinking about reconditioning soybeans in a bin, ( 7.5%-9.5% moisture, appx 11,000 bushels heaped, 3HP fan, 30ft bin)
OSU released a newsletter claiming that your bin will bust if you add too much moisture
https://agcrops.osu.edu/newsletter/corn-newsletter/2024-33/considera...
It appears to claim alot of the same information from a 2015 article from Nebraska
https://cropwatch.unl.edu/considerations-reconditioning-too-dry-soyb...
Was wondering if anyone had experience with this. I could not find any articles of people claiming to have actually have (or admit) bin damaged from the beans swelling up. I understand that I'm probably not going to get back to 13% but anything I add would be beneficial.
My current thought is if I reverse fan to pull moisture down from top I could recondition the top layer hopefully avoiding busted bolts and then unload beans, pulling the higher moisture beans from the top. This way I could continue to add moisture to the new top layer, maybe unloading a truckload once a week or so?
Also if i add to much moisture hopefully it would be more on the topside of the bin which would be easier for me to test and unloading in a hurry. Plus hopefully less beans sticking to walls or floor.
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Busting Bins with Soybean Reconditioning?
