A steel grain silo is built to keep grain dry, cool, and stable from harvest to sale or feed-out. When the storage environment drifts, grain quality can drop fast. The same pattern shows up again and ...

If the stored grain is dry, Hellevang recommends periodically running aeration fans in the spring to keep the grain below 40 degrees as long as possible through the beginning of summer. In northern ...

Energy costs are high, so a simple solution would be to cash in on Mother Nature’s free drying services this fall. Unfortunately harvest decisions are rarely simple. Consider these factors when ...

While some Illinois corn growers are heading into harvest early, others are telling Ken Ferrie their corn is drying slowly in the field – they’re seeing moisture levels drop only one point per week.

Once a hybrid has completed flowering, the grain begins the process of adding dry matter. Initially, grain moisture is 80 to 90% and decreases as starch accumulates. Once the grain fully colors and ...

With all crops, when to terminate irrigation at the end of the season can be a challenging question. For sorghum growers, the answer requires a look at a sorghum plant’s late-season water needs as it ...

It’s getting to be quite a challenging start in the year from getting out of a late wet harvest season to now dealing with the disruptions of life and services as we know it due to the COVID-19 ...

Grain storage may be less of a concern this year, as demand is at a peak, but anything that is left stored will need to maintain its quality. For those with excess crop, bag storage provides a good ...

The fall’s wet weather resulted in extremely slow grain drydown and a late harvest. Many growers may still be harvesting grain and what is coming from the field may be too wet to store, yet some may ...