We Have Over 30,000 Bu Of Corn Going Bad!
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
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Another Great video 💯 your dad did an excellent job filming/recording 👍 Hope you had a good vacation!!!
Thank you! 🙌 yes had a good vacation and left the camera in good hands.
Always something to keep a guy on his toes.
Isn’t that the truth!!
Thats an awful feeling when you check bins and they're heated or crusted. Had a 10,000 bushel bin of canola heat on me, the whole 10,000 bushels were damaged. Had another with wheat in it cust on me too.
Makes you sick to your stomach almost instantly. Just glad ours ended up coming out okay.
Well come back hope you had a nice time while you were away That was an awesome video Really enjoyed you're explanation of what was going on with the corn bins glad you got it sorted out and you had no big losses on the corn That was a major issue to deal with just as you're getting back from having a break first few days back must have been hectic hauling corn and getting it all sorted out
Looking forward to the next video
Best wishes from Ireland 🇨🇮
Yeah it was quite the ordeal to come back to! But I guess you come to expect something every time you start a new day. There is never a dull day around the farm.
Glad you enjoyed it!
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As a city boy and not a farmer, sure was tough holding my breath so long while your in the bin. To many farmers have lost their life in a grain bin and I don't understand why you ain't got safety equip on or if it would make any difference if you did. Thanks for showing some of the scary side of farming, just to let us know it's not all easy times!
I completely agree. Always makes us nervous getting in the bins. What I was doing was relatively safe, but technically anytime we get in a grain bin we should have a harness on.
Glad you enjoyed the video! We definitely want to show all sides of the farming world.
Christy Noem’s Dad died in a corn bin just like this. Age 47. Very dangerous
Love the joke about corn in the bin hitting v3.
😂 dad was not so cracked up about it.
Was looking for some new farming channel to watch and DING DING, we have a winner! Looking forward to seeing your channel grow. Subcribed!
Glad to hear it! 🙌 thanks for the sub and hope you enjoy the channel!
But DO be especially careful/attentive in very-familiar surroundings. Most accidents happen close to home. Familiarity breeds contempt....perhaps not exactly, but it does "breed" complacency. We need all the farmers we (still) have, and not a one to "spare."
We couldn’t agree more. Watching this video more and more has made us realize that exact thing. Being around it daily and “familiar” with it doesn’t make it any less dangerous.
Good luck hauling your corn 🌽
It all went smoothly thankfully!
In the uk we would have a harness on,health and safety 😊
You are correct. Technically anytime we enter a grain bin, we should have a harness as well.
just another winning farmer vid.
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We had an alcohol plant in are area. That give us a good corn price! It is under going some changes now. Hope it comes back!
That’s nice! Having some kind of processor close always helps with basis!
Great video
Thanks!
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first time viewer, good content. if you didn't already know, issues make good content.
Thanks for checking us out! Hope you enjoyed it and stick around. Yes, unfortunately for us but lucky for you guys we always seem to have plenty of issues to keep the content going! lol
Good job you caught that before it got worse even though the monitors said it was fine , just can't trust these things 100% and better to look at it yourself
You are 100% correct there! The cables catch most problems but shouldn’t keep us from putting eyes on the grain every so often.
Had the corn loaded once last fall
Growing up on a farm dad told me this , 1 scoop of grain is real to 1/3 of a bushel!
Hadn’t heard that before but sounds about right!
11 % moisture corn has a long shelf life, what happened not dry enough to start with ? Alcohol plants will buy it for sure.
For the length we usually store it, the 15-15.5% that it was is usually dry enough. We had a long stretch there where we didn’t haul anything so maybe it wasn’t quite dry enough for that.
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@@CatesFarming the shelf life is already calculated on a graph,the wetter the corn the shorter the shelf life, 10% to 11% moisture will keep indefinitely as long as the bug eggs don't hatch and it becomes food for millions of tiny bugs, corn wevols just eat the germ of the kernel that contains moisture.
Sounds like you put it in wetter than it should have been and didn't run the aeration fans
Corn went in between 15.0-15.5, and fans are ran on automatic in the fall. Which means they run anytime ambient weather is ideal.
I hate seeing you in the bin, it scares me!
Yes, wasn’t the smartest move on our part. We haven’t been inside a full bin since.
What did you do or not do that caused this much grain to heat up?
Not 100% sure what caused it, but if we had moved grain at our normal pace we would have caught it sooner.
Would a laser thermomatur help you?
Cables seem to be the best around here. Think we just have to fine tune our parameters.
Where exactly were you dropping the Corn off to? I'm not familiar with what the 1.4 or 15% meant.
We are delivering it to a local elevator. They buy the grain from us and then train it out.
The 15% is the Moisture. That’s ideal so the 14.6-15.3 that we were hauling was right in line with where we wanted to be.
The 1.4 is the Damage. You want as little damage as possible. I can’t remember the threshold, but I think somewhere in the 4-5% range is where this elevator starts to doc your price.
@@CatesFarming Thanks for the information! Must be quite a system on their side to measure the damage then as it unloads. Is storing/selling at specific elevators a game that you guys have to play? We've had problems, it appears, with storage of potatoes.
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Moisture migration?
Possibly, but we cool our grain out in late fall to store through winter and then refrain from pushing warm air over the cool grain so wouldn’t have thought that would be a problem.
@@CatesFarming Same here
How embarrassing