High Moisture corn

[Herefordcross]

How long does high moisture corn last after being put into an on farm bin. Any special requirements or just auger it in?

 

[Chuck]

How long does high moisture corn last after being put into an on farm bin. Any special requirements or just auger it in?

Depends on what you are calling high moisture,the temperature of the grain, your aeration system,etc. Generally,no you can't store high moisture corn in a grain bin for very long without spoilage. That was the reasoning for all the blue tubes that people put up in the '70's for grain storage. Oxygen is not your friend in this case. You can put higher moisture corn in a stave silo, but you have to be careful and it takes some prep work. Some guys bag it now to limit oxygen with the plastic bags like they do with silage. Talk to people in your area that do it to see what works and to avoid a wreck.
Good luck.

 

[mnmtranching]

High moisture corn will heat and spoil very quickly, in warm weather it will heat in 24hrs.

In cold freezing weather it will keep, if its spread out and stirred every couple of days.

mnmt

 

[Stocker Steve]

Most folks bag it today to keep it from spoiling. Those blue tubes are expensive

The medium mositure option is ear corn. You can store it with mositure in the mid 20s if your crib is designed right.

 

[enge0376]

At the feedlot where i work they combine hm corn and run it through a roller mill and spray some hm corn inoculant on it as it comes off the roller and goes up a big auger where they then push it into a big huge pile and keep driving on it to pack it real good. Then they tarp it. We are still feeding corn off that pile from last year and it smells good enough to eat myself!