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.

[farmaholic]

I was hoping to discuss the costs and merits of drying poorly priced or poor quality wheat. The market doesn't seem to care what you have spend to protect or salvage quality.

Current grain prices are disgusting, even for #1 13.5. Take away quality and it gets uglier.

[recapped]

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

You are right Chuck, climate has always been changing, it's normal. CO2 is not the cause.

[bucket]

Elevators with dryers can't justify using them even with the potential of lots of tonnage...it makes it tough for a farmer to justify owning one...most years it would be rusting...

Why can't the graincos step up and help producers instead of passing the costs onto them...

Right now it hard to get them to paper dry grain...

[fjlip]

more stalled persistent weather systems.

Like the stuck dry climate in the 30's, hot dry 80's, Stuck wet COLD in the 50's and 70's.

Ya never happened before, plus earlier centuries had climate changing events also.

You prove SFA, nothing is new, all kinds of shitty weather coming right up, and it will not be HOT!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I was hoping to discuss the costs and merits of drying poorly priced or poor quality wheat. The market doesn't seem to care what you have spend to protect or salvage quality.

Current grain prices are disgusting, even for #1 13.5. Take away quality and it gets uglier.

That is the trouble with calculating the economics of break even etc. You may already be at a loss of a few cents without drying it, but if drying costs 20 cents, and downgrading costs 50 cents per bushel, then it still makes more economic sense to dry it than leave it, even though both scenarios lose money.

Same with applying an additional fungicide or insecticide to a money losing crop, to save losing even more.

Same thing happens with livestock. A single vet bill for a cow of calf might take all the profit away, then if that animal needs treated again, it is guaranteed loss. It might cost an additional $100 for a dose to potentially save the animal, but losing the animal is more like a $1200 loss.