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Boone Co. Iowa | Build 1 80,000 bin with air and start combining at 15 or 15.5%. Put all the beans in the bin. You can control the moisture of the harvested beans by variety maturity and also by a fungicide (or 2) treatment - fungicide usually improves plant health and makes those beans a little wetter.
We usually have variety difference around almost 1. We start with 1.8 to 2.2 maturity, and go to a 2.6 to 2.8 variety…..
With a Draper head, combining 15% beans goes pretty good.
Once you have bin half or 3/4 full, turn on the fans and move the moisture up through the drier beans. The beans you put in at 10% will gain a point or 2.
Building one 80,000 bin is more cost effective than a 2nd combine imo.
I think a guy can then make money by hauling beans to wherever the basis is better. Co-ops will keep your phone number handy if they know you have 80,000 bushels of beans to deliver.
Easier to make money on the phone and hiring trucks in the off-months than it is to run a second combine for 5-7 days in the fall.
Easier for a single operator to pay bills hauling beans than corn. 5 loads of $11.50 beans equals over 12 loads of $4.50 corn.
If you are already storing beans, you are playing half the game. Bite the bullet and put up one big bin.
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Increasing bean yields- harvest techniques and storage
