Posted 9/20/2006 22:10 (#45298 - in reply to #45293) Subject: RE: Elevator Corn Shrink %...1.17% I think
Chebanse, IL.....
If you consider #2 corn 15.5%, there is 47.32#/bu of dry matter. If you use that for a factor...you come up w/about 1.17% shrink per 1% of moisture removed. I think they call the rest "mechanical loss"....whatever that means.