Kaye2
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I am waiting for around 25% or lower, always heard it will shell at 30 though. Just depends on how much you want to spend in drying. Should dry in the field well below 30 especially with frost.
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Combines Corn Moisture
T__langan
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On a "typical" year, we do a lot of high moisture corn for cattle that runs from 28-32%. You can shell corn as high as 38%, but the higher the moisture, the more kernal damage you'll get - even will get considerable amount of damage at 30%. The wettest corn I've ever seen cut was 42% which resulted in yellowish snot hanging from the chaffer and coating the innards of the Gleaner! (BTW, I hear the best thing for removing corn snot is to let it dry a bit and use a putty knive to scrape it out) As for your other question about the frost - the corn will dry down after getting killed off by frost, but it will dry slower than mature corn. Pray for warm, windy, dry weather. Test weights will no doubt suffer too. Consider yourself lucky that you are in that situation - our corn all died from drought. Best we've harvested so far went 66 bu_acre.... Tom langan
MinnR62
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We had quite a drought here in SE Minn. We were harvesting 80-90 bushel corn today, and the monitor went between 12 and 13 % moisture.