More than 12%?!?! I have never seen corn at 12% here. EVER. even in the corn burner, I am doing 13.5 to 14% corn. harvesting at 18% is about as good as I can get in november with dry humidity and cold temps.
Some years I am at 20% standing in november and there isn't anything I can do about it except taking a hair dryer to every ear individually... not gonna happen, but I have thought about it.
So...
If you are looking at your corn adn you notice that the tassles have dropped, take an ear in dig your thumbnail into a few kernels. see how the outside is translucent and the inside is starchy opaque white? When teh starchy opaque white is 50 % of the size of the kernel, you are at 18% or 17%. That is the best way I can describe it. I could show you if you want to come over, but I don't have any corn standing right now. Next year, I can show you, will do twice as much...
The other way I can tell if it is ready is that I sleep walk... SO if I wake up in the cab onf the combine with the corn header on, and engine running, I know it is time to go. I can dream up 17%. can't store it in a bin in western PA unless it is below 15.5%. Our humidity will spoil it above that. I can smell wet corn, and can taste it when running the combine. I guess it comes with age, and an obvious lack of a girlfriend/wife, but some of us just live for the harvest. We have nothign better to do!
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