Drying Grain....

[farmaholic]

What if we have bad downgrading and need to dry the wheat?

What if you want to preserve quality and just go early?

Current wheat prices are pretty crappy.

Poor quality wheat will be even cheaper.

How do you justify spending more money on cheap wheat?

I suppose if you locked in $7.00+ it would make more sense to preserve quality.

Hopefully prices recover later to help make this all make sense.

[makar]

Your obviously not listening to your agronomist who cant tell a tractor from a pitchfork hence you are as stupid as me.

[FarmJunkie]

Dried every bushel so far Farma. Trying to keep the wheat a #2 if possible. Every day with showers and heavy dew brings it closer shit grade so hoping the grain buyers have a heart.🤞 No money in it as it is now but doesn’t do me any good leaving it out there. Also because it was so dry the crop is short and every rain event pushes it closer to the ground.

[Oliver88]

Liberals figure a carbon tax on propane and natural gas this year to fight off warm weather is wonderful. 🖕🏻

Irony is if the prairies were actually warming there wouldn’t be issues getting enough propane delivered to a farm.

[fjlip]

IF IF we were actually WARMING, chuck chuck, all the crop would be DRY and in your bins!

[farmaholic]

"Down here" a farm our size never would seem to require an elaborate automatic grain drying system.
We have gotten by without for decades. Seldom would have it paid to own one. Many years it would sit idle.

But there is an aggressive progressive operator near here who farms way more acres and always starts tough and early. When the rest of the crop catches up to dry....they just harvest normally then. Good efficient operators.

[Guest]

"Down here" a farm our size never would seem to require an elaborate automatic grain drying system.
We have gotten by without for decades. Seldom would have it paid to own one. Many years it would sit idle.

But there is an aggressive progressive operator near here who farms way more acres and always starts tough and early. When the rest of the crop catches up to dry....they just harvest normally then. Good efficient operators.

youre lucky , she's a necessity here in the swamp
drying oats today to pick away at preprice contract
we don't do much right lol , but we lucked out on that one
bought a 250 bu superb the year after the 02 drought for $8k
put NG in for $4k , $3k for augers , $1k for power, $500 for cement pad
can't imagine what it would cost now ?
got a 5hp electric motor rebuilt today , cost more than the cement pad did back then
used it every year but one , nice starting earlier in the day
really cheap drying early , but lotsa extra work

[Guest]

IF IF we were actually WARMING, chuck chuck, all the crop would be DRY and in your bins!

cluck, cluck mighta got froze in august , lots did in NW Sk

[fjlip]

youre lucky , she's a necessity here in the swamp
drying oats today to pick away at preprice contract
we don't do much right lol , but we lucked out on that one
bought a 250 bu superb the year after the 02 drought for $8k
put NG in for $4k , $3k for augers , $1k for power, $500 for cement pad
can't imagine what it would cost now ?
got a 5hp electric motor rebuilt today , cost more than the cement pad did back then
used it every year but one , nice starting earlier in the day
really cheap drying early , but lotsa extra work

Got Gas in 1985, $4500, 1978 180Bu FF, 1981 bin, power, augers, pad, maybe $5K.

Yes rebuilt many motors, maybe 3 years out of 41 that we never fired her up. Saved thousands in grades and drying costs, lots of extra work but pays back. Beats a second parked combine all to hell.

[chuckChuck]

Global warming doesn't change the fact that some regions will see rainy cooler seasons while others will see warmer and dryer. Seasonal, monthly and daily variability is called weather.

Climate is long term trends. What happens on your farm in your region in one particular month, season is not representative of what happens on the globe as a whole.

An there is plenty of evidence to suggest that a rapidly warming arctic and a weaker jet stream is leading to more stalled persistent weather systems.

Higher air temperatures allow the air to hold more moisture and produce bigger rain events.

Both are evidence of climate change if observed over a long period of time.