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IlliniFarmr
Posted 12/10/2018 16:56 (#7162265 - in reply to #7162257)
Subject: RE: Bin air corn drydown


This is the right answer, various versions of this question keep coming up, and I don't know how much electricity has been wasted blowing air that is wetter than the crop in storage trying to get it to dry, especially with beans. There was a thread where a guy ran fans all winter on some beans and they didn't dry down, if the same guy would have looked at an equilibrium moisture chart he would see that he was just burning electricity for almost the entire winter, and probably could have dried those beans in one week in the spring when the humidity was right.

So for the original poster, you will have to get some heat on the air you are putting in to get the humidity out of it, or hope for some low humidity days. Your equilibrium moisture chart will show you how difficult drying in december with just air is going to be.

Edited by IlliniFarmr 12/10/2018 16:58
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