Farmer Josh Tests Corn Moisture Written on October 15, 2009, by Josh.Baynes.
My corn is mature, but it is still pretty wet. On Thursday, Oct. 15, we checked the moisture content of the corn by pulling six ears of corn from my field. As you’ll see in the pictures below, the corn has 29.4% moisture. Ideally, you want the corn to be about 15% or less in order [...]
Farmer Josh Harvesting Soon? Written on October 15, 2009, by Josh.Baynes.
There is a chance that we will be harvesting my 3 acres of corn tomorrow (Friday, Oct. 16)! I’m told that we can harvest if the corn field is a little wet, but not too much. No heavy rain is expected the rest of the day, so the ground will likely be okay. The real [...]