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Eastern Iowa | A 800 bu. per hour dryer would dry 19,000 bushels a day, can you combine that much in a day? As the corn drys down latter in the year it may dry almost double that much in a day. I bought a Supurb last year, the cost difference between the smallest dryer they make (around 300 bu per hour) and the next size up that is rated around 400 per hour cost over $10,000 more. I think the key is to have enough wet storage to be able to dry corn 24 hours a day while you are only combining 12 hour a day or so. A continous flow dryer needs to have a steady flow of wet corn availible to keep a consistant output moisture. If the dryer runs out of wet corn before you start filling the next day you need to go through a procedure to get the corn up to temp. before you can turn it over to continous flow. It seemed to me that in this case undersized may be better than oversized. The money saved can be used for a wet storage bin. | |
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Grain Dryers
