Hot barley

[RAF]

32 deg when we cut it

 

[Bobthebuilder]

32 deg when we cut it

That’s probably more your problem

 

[Bobthebuilder]

ours was 32deg into store dry - been blowing with pedestals and down to 22 already - getting about 2deg a night out right now

Warm/hot nights not helping to cool it down tho

 

[murphy]

So would propcorn save it ?

 

[Flatlander]

At that heat and moisture it will go mouldy in days. Even cooling it now will just slow moulding by a day or two. If you were going to roll it and feed,crimping and treating with propcorn would be your cheapest option. If it’s now spread over the yard and rain on get it into a batch dryer or you’ll be taking it to the dung pile.

 

[RAF]

Borrowed a loadall and move it around . Mould forming in places now . What a mess ffs

 

[czechmate]

Borrowed a loadall and move it around . Mould forming in places now . What a mess ffs

Surely there must be someone local to you who could dry it for you?
I always used to be doing bits and bobs for neighbours

 

[Hilly]

Get it crimped into a agg bag

 

[RAF]

It won’t flow through a mill , trying find out if I can home and dry it .

 

[shakerator]

Long story cut 80 ton barley 13% . But full of self set triticale from previous crop . This was green . Anyway cut it now in shed ands it’s red hot to the point u can’t put your hand in it . So have spreed it around another shed a foot deep. Still hot . No drying facilities . Question is will it cool down eventually . I can feed but only if I can get it cool .
thoughts thank u

take a sample and work out proportion of trit @ 40% and work out a weighted average with the barley at 13% to give you an equilibrium. Clearly the heat will attract pests, however 13% barley will absorb some heat and moisture

it will cool down after equilibrium but damage depends on length of heat and amount of moisture to dissipate, which in turn depends on above figure

 

[teslacoils]

Hire in mobile drier. Surprising what one of these mecmar / tub driers will do.

 

[RAF]

Just tested it at 22% but it’s that hot even a foot deep u can’t put your hand in it

 

[teslacoils]

Just tested it at 22% but it’s that hot even a foot deep u can’t put your hand in it

Forget the moisture a minute, as if it's that hot it will be manky in no time. You need to cool it as much as dry it. I don't mind grain in at 32 degrees so long as its 12 percent moisture! But still needs cooling.

 

[graham mc]

what about an ad plant??

 

[JeremyD]

Mr sawtooth beetle will be your next problem if it's that hot!

 

[Clive]

Warm/hot nights not helping to cool it down tho

its not been 32 at night - plenty air cooler than grain at night - don’t want to high a difference between ambient and grain or you can get condensation

 

[Oliveau]

Hire in mobile drier. Surprising what one of these mecmar / tub driers will do.

That's what I suggested yesterday, so what are you waiting for ??

 

[som farmer]

we had to shift a heap of wheat, that was red hot, used a sucker/blower to move it, what came out the cyclone, bore little resemblance to what we sucked up, looked a perfect sample. The steam and dust, that came out, one would have thought it was 'finished', fans on cooling it after, perfect, its moving it, that is the key.

 

[Oliveau]

Yes, but OP's problem is that the heat is coming from the green triticale at 40%, so the only answer is to cook it in a drier.

 

[neilo]

It won’t flow through a mill , trying find out if I can home and dry it .

I’m pretty sure you can’t use Home n Dry if there are greens in it, which the Triticale surely must be?

Give FiveF a ring,they will be able to advise properly.