Our Grain Dryer and Bin System-How They Work
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- It's a bit too muddy to be out in the fields today, so instead I'll be explaining how are Grain Drying System Works.
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This is why you have become so popular on TH-cam. You are a professional farmer running a major grain operation with a complex elevator system. You have a great knack for teaching us about the operation and your videos are always current.
Thank you!
I had no idea how mechanically intensive grain farming was. Much Respect.
@Doc Savage Okay grandma, that's enough Facebook for today.
@@MillennialFarmer glad I found your channel it's great to watch
Don’t apologise man your busy with the harvest.
Love from Scotland.
Great channel.
What he^^^^ said👍👍. Well except for the last part😂😂
*you're (Just like in Scotland.)
He's from MN just like me. It's in our blood to apologize for these kinds of things :)
Scotland ,nice , beautiful country that I look forward to visiting when I can . Also , beautiful breed of cows come from there . The Scottish Highlands .
My 12 year son Mark has downs syndrome and loves everything farming. He watches your TH-cam show almost daily. He loves to watch the deere combines dump on the go and he especially likes to see your kids ride along in the buddy seats. This is one of his favorite things to do with his uncle and cousins on their farm in mineral point WI. We live in Dubuque, Iowa and work for John Deere and really appreciate the education you are giving to non farmers. Keep it up. It is and will continue to be my sons passion to share with his family.
Positively the best description of how the dryers and bins work.Thanx oodles from a non farmer.
Cannot get a better description of how a dryer works and the work that goes into it.....SPOT ON!!! Great job MN Millennial Farmer and Family
MN's proud of you, Zack, Becky and family! I've been around a number of grain drying systems, but I've never had the whole process explained, as you have just done here. You really break things down in such a way that we city folk are able to understand what at first appears complicated. My students would describe you as, "The Bomb"!
Better than any reality TV show out there for sure!! Great explanation on the dryer. We have a small floor dryer system that works well but we aren't running anywhere near the acres you run.
You are a great ambassador to the agricultural community. I respect your views and how you try and educate people who do not know or understand our industry.
I love this channel so much, I get so excited when I get a notification for a new video. Thanks for explaining everything about the Dryer I've been curious how they work for awhile.
This is absolutely one of the best video's MN Millennial Farmer has put out. You explained the process very well!
I just discovered this channel yesterday and it’s already my new favorite! Thanks for sharing all this information! Now I know what I’m looking at when I drive by!
Thanks for taking the time to explain things to us. We do appreciate it!!!
Video Grain Dryer how it works....Excellent.........Its amazing you take the time and effort to produce such a video.....there has to be thousands of young and old guys watching vicarious thru your videos ..HUGE THANK YOU TO YOU AND FAMILY.....and GOD BLESS
Dont worry bout being able to answer everyone back for stuff as long as u keep the videos coming its all good. You have a aweersome set up and the silo on the game is a bit hard but i seen the video on it this morning so now im gonna try it out..your videos are very imformative and helpful so please keep them coming..your awesome for what you do to help keep america fed thanks for everything you do..I drive a truck and i repect the farmers in this world..Thanks so much!!!
Awesome video love how you explain things. Thanks to you and Becky for all the work you put in to keep this channel going strong.
I feel very educated about how grain dryers work and the how the flow pattern gets directed.
Excellent video,you have done a top-notch job!!.
This is by far, my new favorite channel!!!
Hope you are having fun. And thanks for sharing what goes on at a farm good and frustrating. Most people don’t get it. Hopefully through you they start to understand. Hopefully soon we all can get back to harvesting.
Thank you for this channel. I grew up in south central ND, then many years in Fargo. Now living in WV. It is a touch of home in many ways and allows me to explain some things to friends and coworkers what life is like back there.
That was an awesome tour. Thanks for explaining everything so a city boy living but country boy dreaming guy like myself can understand. Love the channel and the family. Thanks for all you do.
I think you are a good speaker and a natural born teacher. Keep up the good work!
We got a snow storm coming up in Moorhead☃️. Keep up the amazing work I always can’t wait to watch u everyday after school!!
Thank you for taking the time to make videos! It's great to share information for other farmers to learn from as well as showing non-farmers what farming is really like. And thank you for representing Sukup Mfg! ~ Fellow farmer and Sukup dealer in South Dakota
this is so cool! from a non-farmer, this is amazing to watch.
Hi very nice video if u were not a farmer u can realy think of teaching u are good at speaking and explaining ext God bless from south afrika
As far as I've understood, he kind of does. He's setting up a business guiding farmers to run their farms more effective, and spoke at a convention(?) a few weeks back.
Awesome video! You explained the process very well. I've been around grain setups my whole life but never had it explained so well. Thank you!
You are a real joy to watch. Learning so much on farming from someone who knows his stuff! All respect for what you are doing!
woohoo, I needed a break, so happy to see a new video!
Hi love your videos keep up the good work
love videos like this. i dont know a lot about farming but really enjoy learning how you all feed this country. Keep it up
Great description of the dyer system. It will really help those who are not familiar in understanding how it works. Well done.
Shoutout to Becky for the edit during harvest!!
Becky dose all of the editing I thought Zach did it.
Is it true? Thats nice...
I've done most of it up until the last month. Becky has been doing most of it during harvest now so I can keep up with the rest of what's going on
Hey Zach, you should do a “behind the scenes” video!! Becky can follow you around and film you filming!! Haha
Really do enjoy learning about commercial farming from you and others who proudly show how they go about making a living. Thank for making the time to share your life. Question.... If I was a kernel of corn, how long would I spend in the drier at say 25% moisture with the goal of 15%?
Roughly 40 minutes!
you have a real knack explaining how something works. well done
Greetings from the UK, i just got to say your channel is brilliant and have sparked a fascination and interest for farming i didn’t know i had. Keep up the good work!
Maybe this is just the first year you are showing it, but it seems like when you get all 3 trucks full and grain cart, you are essentially forced to stop to wait for either room in the wet tank or the dryer to catch up. Seems that 12 row header is making field time faster than usual. If you were forced to replace the wet tank or dryer to make your operation flow more, which would you choose and why?
Also, you went from like 80k to 120k in what seems like just a month. That is a tell-tell sign of quality content. Excellent job to both of you!!!
This is a good question. Increase wet tank capacity or increase dryer size?
Well the way i see it increasing wet tank capacity is just dellaying the problem not fixing it.
The optimal would probably be wet tank capacity for like a days harvest, and having a dryer big enough to make sure that pretty much empties every morning before you start.
Good question if it was me i'd probably increase dryer size but i'm no expert farmer.
Jordan Roberts I’m thinking that at this point they are dealing with 3 things that slow the system down. Wetter worn than normal, cold temperatures, and the 12 row header increasing harvesting speed. Possibly in a “normal year” the problem wouldn’t exist. Having said that I’d go for more wet storage first. An overhead cone bottom that could be filled with dry corn for a quick load otLooks like a big dryer.
Lower temperatures aren't slowing down the harvest, it's actually accelerating it (frost pushing out the water eca). My guess is that they have enough trucks to store it if the wet bin is ever full, but judging from the system my guess is that it actually goes fairly quickly to dry out the corn. So if they leave it running overnight it might empty a lot from the wetbin, or certainly enough to not worry about it.
Just curious, how many bushels does the cab hold🤔🤔? Asking for a friend 😂😂😂😂. Keep up the good quality videos, Zach 👍 👍 👍👍✌️
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I remember my grandpa running the dryer and running wagons on my uncle's farm as a kid. They didn't have nearly the setup you do now and had a dryer that was run off a PTO. But I remember going out with him to get a sample of corn in an old Foldgers can and using the moisture tester. Good memories.
That was a great video. I was a farm boy from Illinois that misses the farm life. Your videos take me back to mattoon Illinois and my love for farming.
How does the manual moisture test work? Maybe make a video on this topic?
Seems that weight? Our meters checks the grain electrical resistance and converts the reading to the moisture %.
What do you think going to be running beans through the dryer too
He did a video last year I believe on the manual moisture tester.
I think it’s weight of a specific amount of corn, hence why he fills that square cup and then dumps it onto the meter. Used to watch the old elevator guys do this when my dad would bring corn in.
We had a dickey Jon tester we kept on the combine that was calibrated with the grainery. We also would use it to cross check every once in a while the yield monitor to make sure it was correct as well. Those go awry every now and then
Thank you! I always wanted to know how a grain dryer worked! How many bushel per hour does it do?
Roughly 700-1000 highly dependent on incoming grain moisture
Wow, that seems like allot and at the same time not so much. IDK but that automated system is pretty cool! Thank you!
Love this channel! As an accountant I know less than jack about farming, but these videos make me wanna bolt from the office/city life and start farming yesterday, so interesting! Keep it up dude
Extremely informative as always. Sure hope the rain let's up. Farmers like you are the backbone of this country. Thank you.
Its a swamp here in NE Nebraska too. Not much harvested here.
Ya we have not even started it has bean so wet.
Amen to that
Pressure switches on the pneumatic conveying lines can alert you to a disconnected pipe.
I grew up on a farm cant farm now due to med issues but watching your videos is like Im in the seat again. Thanks man you rock.
Thank you and Becky for all your efforts to share you day to day with us. I'm a retired Farmer/Rancher from B.C. and it amazes me that you are able to put the time in doing your videos.I'd be crashing every chance I got!! I miss the stress and you videos make me fell like I'm back in the game. Cheers, Billy from Canada
So how many bushels does the dryer do in an hour?
You should put covers on the belts to keep fingers and dog tails out of them and they will stay dry and covered
They definitely don't stay dry from shields! They also make it a lot more difficult when we plug an auger or smoke a belt. For safety reasons it would be ok though.
awesome video man! We've got a very dedicated 79 year old who is still going strong overseeing all of our grain operations here at the elevator in Missouri. Its awesome watching him work. We had quite a rush in the last couple of weeks, but the copious amount of rain has made it impossible for just about everyone around here to continue with harvest. So now we sit and wait :( Look forward to more of your videos! :)
Another very interesting and informative, video Zach. The other day I was reminded of the chore of keeping the windows on the combine clean. I discovered a quick easy way to clean them, California Car Dusters, as long as the glass is dry, they really make cleaning them easy.
Is your system fairly new? When was the first bin put it? It all looks fairly new!
Either that or it's all fairly looked after, If you take care of your equipment your equipment will take care of you.
The first bin was built in 1989 and we've slowly been adding since then. The leg was built in 2012 if I remember right
How many bushels can it dry per hour?
I bet that depends on the incoming moisture content of the grain and the desired outgoing moisture content .... I'm sure they have some form of rating the dryers though, like BTU/hr
Depends, and Yes moisture. I’m assuming the dryer can slow the flow through the walls to maintain its 15% setpoint. It is probably rated at a certain crop moisture, and at a certain ODAT (outdoor air temp) to be able to determine the bushels/hr. output.
Roughly 700-1000 which is highly dependent on incoming moisture
Can you dump cold with that setup?
Thanks for taking the time to make this video. It has cleared up my understanding the working of the dryer.
Again thanks for the city slickers.
Cheers and Beers.
We just appreciate the fadt that you take time to make the videos for our education and entertainment. They are way better than what's on TV. THANK YOU for your efforts.
Do you get a lot of deer around the silos from all the corn that lands on the ground ?
not really the farm dogs chase them away, deer often stay in the field away from people
A few, yes. They come up from the CRP land at night and eat on the south side of the bins. Pheasants too.
Do you have lids on the pits to keep water out when it rains?
Rain water has very little effect on that amount of grain in that small area, I've worked on farms where they store it outside until it's taken into dry, rain or not! 😋
We have giant rubber mats for them actually
Great tour..back in my farming days with my dad we picked our corn and stored in corn cribs. The reason why at that time you could get money for the corn cobs. He thought about shelling his corn also , but decided not too. He farmed with his dad since the 1930's.
I love how informative your videos are we don't have a grain leg my dad is a first generation farmer so we still use augers but think you for teaching me how these expensive setups work!!
Would be nice to have 2-3 cctv cameras in some critical places that you can watch on your phone online when no one is around
That will happen before next year!
MN Millennial Farmer does Soukup or other vendors offer a smart phone app for monitoring and controlling augers and driers? The internet of things would be helpful on the farm. It is amazing Team MF is cranking out videos during a busy harvest. Keep up the good work.
If you turned that dryer all the way up, could it make popcorn???? Lol
Drop in a couple hundred pounds of butter and there you go...YUM!!.😋
I was thinking the same thing, at $12 a bucket he would be a billionaire.
@@Everythingisgoingtobealright HAHA!! Oh yeah!!.
That dryer probably can do that, like ours. Only if you do that, that cost a lot of a gas to get that high temperature. :D
It's not possible with that setup no room for the kernel to expand so I would assume there would just be a fire or burnt corn. Grain dryer fires aren't fun canola especially from my experience anyway
I love your videos as it teaches those that have no idea about crop farming. Myself, I grew up on a small beef farm, worked on a huge dairy that milked 3,000 head. Now raise some beefers for myself and help my family. Also worked at a feed mill where we dried corn and wheat, so I have some experience in that too.
I live in England,UK where our farms are much smaller. So it’s fascinating to see a big USA farm in operation. Thanks for taking the time out to share your life
Tell OLF your comeing for him he’s only 1000 more 😂
I don't wanna mess with Wes! Something tells me he doesn't give a rat's a$$!!!
So how much propane do you burn through the harvest
He explained that in one episode last year, but I can't remember which one
I know when we ran a Constant flow dryer on our farm as a kid you broke it down into the cost per bushel so the actual price didn’t scare you to death. It’s a lot of dollars but when broken down into the per bushel cost it becomes tolerable..
Good one
As much as they use, i hope they get a big discount and delayed payment until at least December. Few people dry their own crops in my area and most of the elevators have natural gas. Kind of hurt the propane industry.
Lp is at about 1.24a gallon
Great video nice to see a real Minnesota working farm in action,I'm from Elk River MN I grew up on my grandfather s farm but he has since passed on and the farm has was sold off so my days of running the combin are done
Thank you! I've always wondered how these bins worked. Tons of pipes, noise, and various bins.
I wonder what he's financial balance sheet looks like (A touchy subject i know) but i'd like to know how much profit he's making per 1000 bushels for example. Like if it cost him $1,000 - $5,000 (Probably no where near but used as example) to plant and spray and harvest the crop, How much of a return per 1,000 bushels does he make. Hopefully my question makes sense lol.
If farming was as easy as a maths some, I guess only bankers would excel at it!.. to many parameters, weather, soil, region, what colour tractors do you buy ect ect
I don't know if he will adress this since it is a touchy subject like you said. But it all depends on the fuel price, propane price (to run the dryer) yield off the crops, price off the crops,... It depends on a lot off different factors so every year it's different in my opinion.
@@Mike-qv3pz Exactly that's why i would like to know abit more info on it like after he's paid for fuel, Staff, seeds, etc how much of a profit does he make, i remember he said briefly in a previous video (The one about trump and subsidies) that they have minimal margins. So lets say he spends around $10,000 per season (For example) would he double he's money at the end of the season or no. What i'm also really saying, is it really worth all the effort at the end of the season.
@@chrisday1590 Read reply i sent to Ekim.
with low corn prices there will be very little profit this year.
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I just wanted to say that your content is extremely enlightening. I am an Export Grain Inspector out here in Washington State. It is very cool being able to understand how the grain we inspect is being planted, harvested, and stored before it heads out our way to be exported. I have passed along your channel to everyone in my local area to learn more about the process of growing Corn and Soybeans. Great channel and keep up the good work!
Thanks Zach for the info. You answered many of my questions I how the silo systems work. Thanks again. Really love your videos
This is the best channel on you tube by far. Thanks for taking the time for making the videos for us non farmers who wanna be farmer's 😃😃😃😃 greetings from the southwest of ireland
Don't need to apologize for working man, your doing great!!!
This was the most informative thoroughly explained video I've seen for as simple as it was. Awesome job man
Been watching for a long time now. Thanks for the tour, I’ve always wondered how that whole process worked. I’m near St Cloud. I NEEDS TO STOP RAINING!!!!
Corn drying is one of the best smells in the world. Used to help on my uncles farm during harvest and loved hanging around the dryer.
Thanks for the tutorial, very informative, I too would be checking every 2 hours, looks like a lot could go wrong quickly and set back the operation.
We are at a stand still here to. Seems like it won't stop raining and there call for 2 to 5 inches of snow tonight. And we are drying beans. What a slow start to harvest. Good luck and have a safe harvest. Great video.
Great video! You did an excellent job of explaining how the dryers and the bin system works. I have learned so much about farming by watching your videos.
Randomly came across your channel and now i find myself watching video after video of yours. Love them and keep them coming!!
As has been said multiple times already, VERY informative! Thank you for sharing your knowledge Zach, it is much appreciated!
I have been watching your videos for awhile now. Not a farmer ,but from a farm background and still interested in ag. You have a great looking operation and appear to be quite knowlegable . like the vids . If im ever in minnesota I wouldnt mind meeting you. good luck with harvest.
Hello from the gulf coast of Texas! They grow rice and cotton around here and I have come face to face with a harvester several times. We live on a dead end road that is all rice patties. Currently we are building a small farming/ranch business as my Dad nears retirement. He enjoys the work and it allows us to put some beef in our freezer for the family. I run the haying operation and work to feed the cows in the winter. we are slowly building the business, but every time I get on my tractor to go cut, rake or bale it feels good. We have a yard full of John Deere equipment and we are going Friday to buy another green tractor. This time one with A/C, heat, and a radio (Big step up!). Have a great day and keep the awesome videos coming. I really enjoy them!
You and Nick Welker have the best farming channels on TH-cam hands down. Keep up the hard work and those Grain Dryers are some of the best made.
Best videos period no need to apologize my son loves to watch them to thank you for taking your time to make them sir
Two thumbs up from Paris, France! I'm a city guy with a deep interest in agriculture and you make it seriously interesting. I look forward to your next videos :-)
I’ve always wondered how they worked, thanks for uploading this!
This exactly the kind of work I'm trying to do. Great teaching points and yes I end up watching the entire video. I will be watching more videos. I grow sugar cane, and will soon invest a lot in corn. So this is way better than sitting in a classroom learning about agriculture. Great video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love your channel. You do a great job of explaining. Hope you have a good season
Great Video. I like the automation you have in your system that makes it hand off for the most part.
Love your videos, this video was really fascinating since I live in the city and don't get to see this everyday. Keep up the great work and hopefully it dries out so you can finish your harvest.
Thank you for explaining how it works! Amazing and no need to apologize
Im glad you explained that dryer i kept wondering how it worked. Theres a lot of moving parts. Thank you
Its nice to see how the dryers work. Where im from very few farms have their own silo systems and mostly have to deliver from the field to the elevators. We live in a very dry winter area so rarely get rains in harvest time but we have to deliver corn at 11% moisture or get charged drying costs.
Hello Zack. I want to thank you and Matthew for what you do. Most of urban America has no idea of what has to happen to put food on the table. We are wet in the Panhandle of Oklahoma and aren't harvesting corn either. I believe we are around 75% done but still have 40 to 50% of our milo or grain sorghum left to cut. Take care and keep up the good work on educating people.
Thanks for the informative and educational video... I amazes me how far the technology has come in farming. Thanks again for sharing the information.
Great video. Well done and very informative. Your overhead must be incredible and the amount of things that can break on a daily basis must be overwhelming. Thanks for all you and other farmers do. If I had a second life.....
Thanks for explaining the dryer process for an OG and city slicker in California.
Wow. What a complex system. Thanks for taking the time to explain it.
Great information. Thanks for all you farmers do.