Posted by JD Seller on November 16, 2015 at 19:38:21 from (208.126.198.123):
In Reply to: 16.1 percent corn posted by Dave H (MI) on November 16, 2015 at 19:30:57:
It all depends on how long he plans to keep it before he uses it. 16-17 percent will keep while it is cold. So if he feeds it up before the spring warm up it will be fine. After that he would be on borrowed time.
As for this year's corn being dryer than your last year's corn. The number of day corn is not the difference. Your corn last year did not mature correctly. Either it was planted too late, not enough heat units, or drought/wet stressed. Any of these things can cause corn to not mature. Then you have high moistures and lower test weights.
The corn crop this year had better conditions so it matured correctly. So it is drying down in the field. I would get to harvesting ASAP as Nov. is getting late enough that we can get snows and high winds can knock stalks down.
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