Success with Natural-Air Grain Drying.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Hansen, Robert; Troyer, Eli; Keener, Harold
- Source
- Resource: Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World; Jan/Feb2009, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p4-7, 4p, 1 Color Photograph, 1 Chart
- Subject
- GRAIN drying
GREEN Revolution
AGRICULTURAL innovations
AGRICULTURAL technology
FOSSIL fuels
AGRICULTURE
TECHNOLOGICAL innovations
AGROTECHNOLOGY transfer
AGRICULTURAL engineering
GREEN technology
AGRICULTURAL development
- Language
- ISSN
- 10763333
The article offers information on natural-air grain drying. It states that natural air-grain drying offers an unusual opportunity for shelled corn, specialty crop, and soybean producers to take part in the green revolution by lessening their consumption of fossil fuels. This is a drying system that typically abbreviates energy costs by as much as two-thirds compared to more commonly used high-temperature drying systems. It also mentions that natural-air grain drying process is slow, generally needing three to four weeks to be completed and that the initial moisture is normally confined to 22 to 24%.