I remember a couple of years ago another farmer going over difference between drying at an elevator compared to doing it on farm, and your number were close to what they thought thier low end loosing out on. As I think the numbers they mentioned was 40,000 to 120,000 a year. If thier figures were right it wouldn't take long to pay for a dryer and a bin or 2 especially when you can hopefully pick the best time to put it on the market
Corn shrink is like getting out of a cold pool.... Smaller when it dries, just ask George Costanza. The worst part is that the grain will have shrink in the bins, because you can't maintain perfect moisture for months. Great video, and really great explanation of the economics.👍👍
One of the things that makes your channel so good is how you go into specific details. Very nice explanation on shrinkage of corn and how all the elevators take an extra profit every chance they get. Now imagine a grain elevator dumping 100 truck per day. On average moisture their pocketing another $ 20,000 per day. Around here on an average year we're probably taking corn off closer to 23% moisture.
Thanks for another great video Brian. It was interesting and enjoyable to watch. Thanks for explaining the importance of the dryer and the cost of running it when drying down corn out of the field. Your dryer costs are a lot cheaper than I would have thought. Thanks for going over that with us. Was interesting. Bin and dryer setups are great too have but take a lot of time to maintain and keep running good. Your double crop seems to be going pretty good. Putting a new sickle blade in the header will certainly help cutting the crop. Believe you said when the double crop is done you have harvest for the year done. Yeah!!!!!!! Glad you can do the climbing on the grain bins to check to see how full they are. Too darn high for me. Heights like that would not work for me. Wow. Thanks for everything Brian. You all take care. The Iowa farm boy. Steve.
I’m not a farmer but I truly like the GSI sponsored videos just to see the tech involved in something that seems like it should be easy and to see a glimpse of the business side of the operation. Rightfully so, you don’t share much of the numbers side, and I wouldn’t either so to get a perspective at least I really appreciate it.
All your bins are full all you need now is the price to go up a little bit so you can sell some I hope you have a great holiday Brian and family wish you the best
People who have never farmed have no idea the amount of planning that goes into raising a corn crop. From Selecting varieties (early vs late), (Flex ear vs fixed), (short vs tall), population rate, Non Gmo vs GMO, gmo traits, fertilizer rates, type of fertilizer (NH3 vs Liquid 28), (liquid starter vs dry fertilizer broadcast or row placement), fall applied chicken manure, pre emerge herbicides, post emerge herbicides, fungicide treatments, etc etc. Not to mention location to your buyer. If the buyer is an elevator, feed mill, seed supplier or ethanol plant. All have different requirements and may require forward contracts to accept delivery of grain. Farmers must plan the harvest of the crop before they have even plant it. This is why farmers are some of the smartest individuals on the planet. They forward plan and make contingencies for every possible outcome all while dealing with mother nature. God Bless everything u do Brian.
Very well said, biggest problem is that people that have never farmed are always trying to tell us farmers how to do it even though they wouldn’t last 5 minutes on the farm
The lack of rain this summer definitely impacted a lot of farmers. Seemed that sometimes it varied from one neighborhood to another. As you stated...double-crops are a gamble and any yield is a bonus. Have a great Thanksgiving, hope the weather cooperates to wrap up double crops. Always seems that the deeper into November we get, the colder/wetter/cloudy weather patterns predominate...making bean harvest a challenge at best.
Commenting: To the Brown Family : Please allow this city sleeker to express gratitude for the fact that you are graciously let us witness the travail of your sacred labour with its struggles pain and fruit and rewards. As a transplant form a less blessed land, your channel is continually inculcating into my soul the ethos, the meaning and the Spirit of being American with every video. Thank You. God bless you all. God Bless America. God Bless God.
I'd like to add one thing, when you harvest 18.4 moisture corn. Your harvesting corn that is wetter/heavier than the standard 15.5 moisture 56lbs/bushel corn. So your harvesting water. Your really not harvesting as many lbs of corn per acre as your pulling of that acre. Because it wetter than 15.5. So once the moisture is brought down to 15.5 from 18.4 that corn now is the correct weight. So the elevator is not taking bushels from you. They are only calculating what that 18.4 corn will weigh once its 15.5 an subtracting that from your total.
My dad grew up with Ronnie Mingua, i noticed the jerky in the door at the 5:24 mark. I live in central KY where he makes it. Interesting character and story. Ive enjoyed your vids for several seasons, stay safe and blessed.
We were fortunate here on our Western Pennsylvania place finished the corn a week ago Wednesday the 14th. And it's been raining and or snowing off and on ever since.
Yeah but #2 yellow corn is 15.5% not 15% , so you are screwing the farmers just like the CoOp we go to.. It pisses me off so much going in with a load at 15.4 and then get all the srink and drying charges, and you don't even dry it, you blend ...BS.....
Initial cost of bins, mechanicals, dryers, etc. is a heavy lift financially. That said, in your situation and tenure of farming, it make good financial sense and can be very cost effective. You all store that much corn for cash flow reasons and current crop pricing? Excellent video, well done!
Its amazing how well ya'll get along working together. I wish you would do a video introducing you, BJ your daddy and your families. Just wondering what your hobbies are and leisure time how do you enjoy your slower times.
Hi Brian. Will Kayla ever drive anything tractor or truck on or off the farm or has she off camera. Seems she would be a great help when she is not teaching. Expand her horizons. Have you thought about a bigger truck with a camper on it to haul the fuel trailer. Hot coffee and microwave for hot meals small refer for water and soft drinks not to mention Facilities. Just a thought.
I mean that's borderline criminal To me When you think of how many Semi-loads go through there How much money there skimming off the top I understand that they have to charge Too dry The corn But man Quite a bit
You can’t count shrinkage as loss because it’s water, it’s there free of charge, if you stored it wet it would go mouldy then you loose the lot. Secondhand car salesmen are amateurs compared to grain merchants! Its in the small print.
I understand that shrinkage is from water, but I’m saying the elevator takes more shrinkage than they’re actually is if you notice the equation at two different shrink factors, the one the elevator used and the actual shrink factor
I know that people who live in cities and buy an acreage in the country don't like it but a cattle feedlot, or hog and chicken buildings benefit the grain producer. The corn and soybean basis is always better near places where animals create demand.
If you are drying the corn at your facility there really shouldn’t be a whole lot of shrinkage because you have already have done that so wouldn’t the numbers be lower? You calculated the shrinkage cost the same for the 18.4 and 15.5 not sure if I’m thinking correctly or not
Before the famous million bin site was built Cole went through all of these numbers. He came to the same conclusion that you did. Problem is he picked the wrong bin company.
The first time was cool being there, but then realizing how crazy ridiculous as people safety things are when constructing stuff it’s a little ridiculous
We used to double crop, yields ranged from 5-40, back then wheat yielded 80-90. Tenants grew wheat on our ground for several years, 100+ bu wheat every year but beans still variable so they quit growing wheat. Market wasn't great around here, local wheat all went to Cargill, then ADM flour mill in Beech Grove IN. Very little wheat around WC IN any more.
Having bins and a dryer eliminates sitting in line at the elevator and lets you “play” the market. Hard to put an accurate value on that. When Russia invade Ukraine I made a lot of 💰
When first put up a bin in 2016 there was a large market swing and I just about made enough to pay for the bin that year, but that time it was adollar a bushel to build a bin
@@BriansFarmingVideos Only way to get bins for $1/bu now is to do what the Welkers in MT do-make a collection of old, small bins. They can get away with it out there doing dryland farming.
just finished harvest here this after noon did some 20% corn for a naighbor ,yesterday morning we had 2 inches of sucky snow but melted away by noon yesterday.
Which green elevator do you take your stuff to the Cargill in Washington courthouse? If so, I’m sure it’s cool place to be when delivering grain. I hated working there though when pouring concrete.
Your dad still getting it done on the farm. What a gift to have him around. My dad has been gone ten years and miss him.
I remember a couple of years ago another farmer going over difference between drying at an elevator compared to doing it on farm, and your number were close to what they thought thier low end loosing out on. As I think the numbers they mentioned was 40,000 to 120,000 a year. If thier figures were right it wouldn't take long to pay for a dryer and a bin or 2 especially when you can hopefully pick the best time to put it on the market
Corn shrink is like getting out of a cold pool.... Smaller when it dries, just ask George Costanza. The worst part is that the grain will have shrink in the bins, because you can't maintain perfect moisture for months. Great video, and really great explanation of the economics.👍👍
One of the things that makes your channel so good is how you go into specific details. Very nice explanation on shrinkage of corn and how all the elevators take an extra profit every chance they get. Now imagine a grain elevator dumping 100 truck per day. On average moisture their pocketing another $ 20,000 per day. Around here on an average year we're probably taking corn off closer to 23% moisture.
Thanks for another great video Brian. It was interesting and enjoyable to watch.
Thanks for explaining the importance of the dryer and the cost of running it when drying down corn out of the field. Your dryer costs are a lot cheaper than I would have thought. Thanks for going over that with us. Was interesting.
Bin and dryer setups are great too have but take a lot of time to maintain and keep running good.
Your double crop seems to be going pretty good. Putting a new sickle blade in the header will certainly help cutting the crop.
Believe you said when the double crop is done you have harvest for the year done. Yeah!!!!!!!
Glad you can do the climbing on the grain bins to check to see how full they are. Too darn high for me. Heights like that would not work for me. Wow.
Thanks for everything Brian. You all take care.
The Iowa farm boy. Steve.
I’m not a farmer but I truly like the GSI sponsored videos just to see the tech involved in something that seems like it should be easy and to see a glimpse of the business side of the operation.
Rightfully so, you don’t share much of the numbers side, and I wouldn’t either so to get a perspective at least I really appreciate it.
Best video I’ve watched of yours. Ty for giving a detailed breakdown of your cost vs savings on drying.
All your bins are full all you need now is the price to go up a little bit so you can sell some I hope you have a great holiday Brian and family wish you the best
Really a great video! Thank you as always for your time to create and share this with us.
People who have never farmed have no idea the amount of planning that goes into raising a corn crop. From Selecting varieties (early vs late), (Flex ear vs fixed), (short vs tall), population rate, Non Gmo vs GMO, gmo traits, fertilizer rates, type of fertilizer (NH3 vs Liquid 28), (liquid starter vs dry fertilizer broadcast or row placement), fall applied chicken manure, pre emerge herbicides, post emerge herbicides, fungicide treatments, etc etc. Not to mention location to your buyer. If the buyer is an elevator, feed mill, seed supplier or ethanol plant. All have different requirements and may require forward contracts to accept delivery of grain. Farmers must plan the harvest of the crop before they have even plant it. This is why farmers are some of the smartest individuals on the planet. They forward plan and make contingencies for every possible outcome all while dealing with mother nature. God Bless everything u do Brian.
Well said
Very well said, biggest problem is that people that have never farmed are always trying to tell us farmers how to do it even though they wouldn’t last 5 minutes on the farm
Great video. Enjoyed it.
Great explanation
The lack of rain this summer definitely impacted a lot of farmers. Seemed that sometimes it varied from one neighborhood to another. As you stated...double-crops are a gamble and any yield is a bonus. Have a great Thanksgiving, hope the weather cooperates to wrap up double crops. Always seems that the deeper into November we get, the colder/wetter/cloudy weather patterns predominate...making bean harvest a challenge at best.
I appreciate all the time and effort you put into these videos.
Commenting:
To the Brown Family :
Please allow this city sleeker to express gratitude for the fact that you are graciously let us witness the travail of your sacred labour with its struggles pain and fruit and rewards.
As a transplant form a less blessed land, your channel is continually inculcating into my soul the ethos, the meaning and the Spirit of being American with every video.
Thank You.
God bless you all.
God Bless America.
God Bless God.
Thanks for the explanation Brian.
Enjoyed the video Brian! Kayla is so fun. God bless you all an BJ and pappy.
Very informative Brian really enjoyed it.
Drying at home also allows you to save on storage charges and market at your decision!
Thanks for explaining the grain dryer :)
Liked the figures on drying.
Good explanation of how and why it is important to have on farm storage 😊.
weird way to start my day: maths lesson from Brian !! great explanation - i learned stuff thx
Thank you for the dryer explanation. I had no idea that's what took place.
I'd like to add one thing, when you harvest 18.4 moisture corn. Your harvesting corn that is wetter/heavier than the standard 15.5 moisture 56lbs/bushel corn. So your harvesting water. Your really not harvesting as many lbs of corn per acre as your pulling of that acre. Because it wetter than 15.5. So once the moisture is brought down to 15.5 from 18.4 that corn now is the correct weight. So the elevator is not taking bushels from you. They are only calculating what that 18.4 corn will weigh once its 15.5 an subtracting that from your total.
My dad grew up with Ronnie Mingua, i noticed the jerky in the door at the 5:24 mark. I live in central KY where he makes it. Interesting character and story. Ive enjoyed your vids for several seasons, stay safe and blessed.
Congrats on full corn bins!
Love the video,can’t wait to see bj more! He is my daughters favorite attitude 😊
Great video! Appreciate the info, gives us a better understanding of things and costs.
Still amazes me that your dad likes the steering on the combine!
Really enjoyed this video.
We were fortunate here on our Western Pennsylvania place finished the corn a week ago Wednesday the 14th. And it's been raining and or snowing off and on ever since.
Thank for this video Brian
Getta done !😊
The double crop beans in front of my house are going around 65 bu ac they looked bad but got a good rain in Sept and took off like crazy
Thanks
I run an elevator, if the corn coming in is sold they dry to 15%. If they are storing it is dried to 14%. So that will be where the extra shrink is.
Yeah but #2 yellow corn is 15.5% not 15% , so you are screwing the farmers just like the CoOp we go to.. It pisses me off so much going in with a load at 15.4 and then get all the srink and drying charges, and you don't even dry it, you blend ...BS.....
BJ is becoming the main guy on the farm. From hands in his pockets to being the GUY on the farm.
Good stuff
What the heck are those my son's driving around well . Im running the combine...All kidding aside nice to see a family operation
Dockage, shrinkage, rookage, and tookage leaves barely enough to drive home and get another load!!!
Could you explain why the shrink cost is lower when you dry at home.
As soon as I saw that coffee on top of the bin with you , I knew it was going to come to grief.
Great video good to see y'all
Initial cost of bins, mechanicals, dryers, etc. is a heavy lift financially. That said, in your situation and tenure of farming, it make good financial sense and can be very cost effective. You all store that much corn for cash flow reasons and current crop pricing? Excellent video, well done!
Awsome farming 😊
all elevators used to kill us on dockage and moisture was terrible Brian
Its amazing how well ya'll get along working together. I wish you would do a video introducing you, BJ your daddy and your families. Just wondering what your hobbies are and leisure time how do you enjoy your slower times.
this looks like TETRIS for profeshenals
Good Ole double craps haven't had a good yield on ours for 4+ years they are 15 or less most of the time
We still have have corn coming in with 30% moisture +
When we are done drying there's just a ¾load left of a full load😂
Always great videos. Thank you for producing great shows about real farming situations. Look forward to the next one.
On farm storage is good investment!
Curious if some of your personally owned land would be suitable to try some drip irrigation?
Thanks enjoy watching
Hi Brian. Will Kayla ever drive anything tractor or truck on or off the farm or has she off camera. Seems she would be a great help when she is not teaching. Expand her horizons.
Have you thought about a bigger truck with a camper on it to haul the fuel trailer. Hot coffee and microwave for hot meals small refer for water and soft drinks not to mention
Facilities. Just a thought.
I mean that's borderline criminal To me When you think of how many Semi-loads go through there How much money there skimming off the top I understand that they have to charge Too dry The corn But man Quite a bit
Everybody has to make a profit, if the grain bins don't make a profit on every operation they don't stay in business very long.
We call them wheat beans in Mercer county Ohio
Good video like always
You buy your coffee cups by the case or truck load? Curious minds want to know
You can’t count shrinkage as loss because it’s water, it’s there free of charge, if you stored it wet it would go mouldy then you loose the lot. Secondhand car salesmen are amateurs compared to grain merchants! Its in the small print.
I understand that shrinkage is from water, but I’m saying the elevator takes more shrinkage than they’re actually is if you notice the equation at two different shrink factors, the one the elevator used and the actual shrink factor
Smart choice to use a head trailer to move the bean head instead of using their transport system much faster
I know that people who live in cities and buy an acreage in the country don't like it but a cattle feedlot, or hog and chicken buildings benefit the grain producer. The corn and soybean basis is always better near places where animals create demand.
Brian great video enjoy watching your content what is going to be the replacement Tractor for the Challenger Tractor your selling? Happy Thanksgiving
See the air coming out. 🤣🤣
Good video
Did you get the greaser on the Thunder creek?
No that would have been nice
Mrs Brown doesn't sound as excited as normal. Hmmm
Where did you get your on farm drying cost of 6 cents/bushel?
I think that’s what osu extension had
Appreciate all your videos and hard work!
$51609 + you get to choose how late you work unless the dryer gets full.
When is working words coming back ?
Oh hell, Brian dont let daddy clown star on that bin !!!!
Mornin 👋🏻
Morning Browns.
If you are drying the corn at your facility there really shouldn’t be a whole lot of shrinkage because you have already have done that so wouldn’t the numbers be lower? You calculated the shrinkage cost the same for the 18.4 and 15.5 not sure if I’m thinking correctly or not
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That shrinkage and grain cost is absolute bullshit for the elevator. They are screwing you, but I guess that’s the cost of doing business.
On the shrink calculator you missed the handling loss line,
Everybody has to make a profit, if the grain bins don't make a profit on every operation they don't stay in business very long.
Good video.
Thanks!
then factor in propane fill ups and electrical usage loss their to.
Both are calculated in Drying Cost.
Great video. Thank you
We run a triple stake gsi dryer
why is the shrinkage different between the two equations?
Actual shrink vs what the elevator figures shrink
Before the famous million bin site was built Cole went through all of these numbers. He came to the same conclusion that you did. Problem is he picked the wrong bin company.
Mornin yall
The first time was cool being there, but then realizing how crazy ridiculous as people safety things are when constructing stuff it’s a little ridiculous
If yall would sale deer and squirrel corn it is worth more than cow and hog corn
Shrink is water not corn. You aren't losing bushels, they just don't pay for water
I understand what shrink is
😂😂@@BriansFarmingVideos
I do believe Mr. Bob likes the Fendt combine!!!
9 to 10 an acre is that even worth it. We have a few guys that double crop over here in Indiana. Our farm does not.
We used to double crop, yields ranged from 5-40, back then wheat yielded 80-90. Tenants grew wheat on our ground for several years, 100+ bu wheat every year but beans still variable so they quit growing wheat. Market wasn't great around here, local wheat all went to Cargill, then ADM flour mill in Beech Grove IN. Very little wheat around WC IN any more.
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Having bins and a dryer eliminates sitting in line at the elevator and lets you “play” the market. Hard to put an accurate value on that. When Russia invade Ukraine I made a lot of 💰
When first put up a bin in 2016 there was a large market swing and I just about made enough to pay for the bin that year, but that time it was adollar a bushel to build a bin
@@BriansFarmingVideos Only way to get bins for $1/bu now is to do what the Welkers in MT do-make a collection of old, small bins. They can get away with it out there doing dryland farming.
just finished harvest here this after noon did some 20% corn for a naighbor ,yesterday morning we had 2 inches of sucky snow but melted away by noon yesterday.
Morin
Hello!
Which green elevator do you take your stuff to the Cargill in Washington courthouse? If so, I’m sure it’s cool place to be when delivering grain. I hated working there though when pouring concrete.
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great video
"If it don't it wont" " If it don't fix it thats not our problem" " just buy a whole new trailer" 😂😂😂 that's science
Words of a seasoned professional farm mechanic
I think Brian needs a go fund me to buy a go cup. Like if you agree.