GRAIN GUY FIFTY BLOG

The dryer had been running the same way for eleven years. Plenum temp set where the old operator  left it. Moisture out averaging 13.2 on corn going to a customer whose contract called for 14.0. Nobody complained. The grain was going out dry, the customer was happy, and the crew knew the routine. It was a "good running" dryer. Everybody said so. What nobody had done in eleven years was the math. At the throughput that elevator was running, over-drying to 13.2 on a 14.0 contra