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Aberdeen MS | HOW it's done vs how it SHOULD be done are 2 way way different things than happens in the real world.
Case in point,
This fall a neighbor asked about my yields, everyone is as they are still waiting for strip till to fall flat on it's face. He puts all his corn in his own bin on the farm with nothing to little going across a scale till the bin is emptied out later in the year. He monitors his progress via the yield monitor in the combine. How he calibrates I have no idea. I know he doesn't own his own weigh wagon.
He was very proud to say he was doing 180+ adjusted to 15%. He inquired of my yields. I asked if he wanted the answer in 56# units or bushels?? He wanted the answer in bushels....obviously.
When taking my weight slips (I have no bins), adjusting the wet weight to 15% via dry matter conversions ( 47.6# of dry matter in 56#/15%) and utilizing the test weight (the number the elevator uses to come up with a deduction factor) for a "true" bushel (1.25 cu/ft?? i think that is correct), I was pushing 190. But using only the 56# standard to determine a bushel, I was less on "saleable 'bushels'".
I'm going to assume that many do not know what the total weight of grain in their bins are until they are delivered unless they were scaled going in AFTER running through the drier. | |
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