GBS the show your watching is dramatizing things for TV. There is a thing called "Phantom Yield Loss". I posted about it a few weeks ago.
A short explanation is the earlier the corn can be harvested while still being mature enough and dry enough to handle ( the numbers I have seen and know put that at anytime under 22-23%)You can cover the drying cost with the yield savings. This phantom Yield loss is where the plant actually will steal starch from the ear to keep the plant alive even though the plant has completed it's job of producing a mature ear/ears. Then you add in other yield losing factors: ear drop in the field, shelling at the stripper plates with dry corn, stalk lodging and etc. So anytime after the ear matures in the early fall and the moisture content is under 23% or so we harvest full bore when weather permits.
This is worse in years when the moisture level of the ear/kernels goes up and down before a killing freeze.
This year we harvested half a field for high moisture feed. The corn was around 28-30% moisture. We where running it through a roller mill anyway so kernel damage was not a concern. Then the rains of Oct. keep us from finishing the field before the balance was under 17-18%. There was no ear drop we could see. Next to zero lodging either. There was about an 4-5% drop in yield. This was weighed bushels, all adjusted back to 15%. Not just yield monitor numbers. It does vary widely with varieties of corn. Some are worse than others.
I will also say this you can not harvest corn at 25- 30% an not have a lot of kernel damage from the combine and heat stress cracks caused by drying super wet corn.
So take just about anything you see on a TV Reality show with a HUGE pinch of salt. LOL
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