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JWalker

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OK gents I need some help here. I have some corn planted with the plans to pick it on the cob and sell for deer corn. The neighbor who planted it for me planted right up to the electric cow fence on three of the four sides of the feild. I thought about taking the combine and "openning up" the field, but I do not know what moisture level on shelled corn is safe to bag without spoilage. I think you can pick it on the cob around 18 to 20% and it not spoil but I do not know about shelled corn. Does anyone know?

Thanks

JWalker
 
I put shelled corn in my horse bin at 16% drier is better. It is a bulk feed tank and has no air movement at all.
 
Standard market moisture is 15.5. If you hand pick a few ears to check moisture prior o combining, remember that machine picked is likely a few points higher.
 
You need to combine the outside round at 25% or so and do smething with it - sell, feed, something. It will not store at that moisture.

Then get picking, corn shells out terribly if it gets to 18% or lower.

Shell corn needs to be 14-16% moisture, over 15% is really pushing it, to store long term.

Sorry, not how you want to hear it, but how it is, you need to find something to do with the wet corn kernals.

Around here it is not unusal to combine all the corn over 20% moisture, only in the last 4-5 years do we get corn down into the teens. Couple years ago nothing dried down, I combined some at 36%, and it as in November, the 'dry' corn was 24% that year.

--->Paul
 
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