No producer wants to throw away money, especially when the majority of input costs are on the rise. As harvest time approaches, many producers will be flipping the switch on their grain bins and ...

Once a hybrid has completed flowering, the grain begins the process of adding dry matter. Initially, grain moisture is 80 to 90% and decreases as starch accumulates. Once the grain fully colors and ...

Douglas Opio examines how the control panel of the grain dryer works. Photo / Roland D. Nasasira. The most common methods of drying grains is spreading it on a tarpaulin or the bare ground. How long ...

With showery summers predicted to become more common, now is a good time to appraise grain-drying facilities and reinvest where necessary to help deal with any extreme seasons to come. Arable farm ...

An expanding cropping area meant Rockscape Farms needed to invest in extra grain storage. By opting for drying silos, the farm is using surplus heat from electricity generated by an anaerobic ...

You can now determine where you can reduce energy costs in your grain drying systems, thanks to a new online calculator provide by Purdue University. The Purdue Energy Estimator estimates energy costs ...

Employees of China Suzhou Zhangjiagang Power Supply Co of the State Grid work at a facility in Suzhou, Jiangsu province. [Photo provided to China Daily] "In simple terms, ground-source heat pump is a ...

MANILA, Philippines — A rapid rice grain dryer that uses hi-tech fluidized bed technology developed by engineers from the Department of Agriculture-Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and ...

The Philippine Center for Postharvest Development and Mechanization (PHilMech) is targeting to complete by end-2022 the development of fluidized bed dryers to improve the grain drying process and ...

This article is brought to you by our exclusive subscriber partnership with our sister title USA Today, and has been written by our American colleagues. It does not necessarily reflect the view of The ...