The cool summer with below average heat units followed by an extremely wet fall have caused great concern for a quality corn harvest in the fall of 2009. The wet and cool conditions have made for ...

high-moisture ear corn (also called earlage or snaplage), and high moisture shelled corn. You have options Researchers at the University of Minnesota studied the differences in gross return per ...

250 to 300 acres of which is used for chopped corn and the rest for high-moisture shelled corn. "We got a couple of hundred acres in before the rain" in May. "It's beautiful," Barrick says.

Follow up with a high ... roll the kernels from the cob with your hand, pushing firmly with your thumb. Wearing a sturdy glove is helpful when shelling. Store the shelled corn in a moisture ...

Water Shrink Factor = 100 divided by (100 minus percent final moisture) Table 1. Water shrink factors for drying shelled corn to various moisture levels. Final moisture content Water shrink factor (%) ...