00:00:00 Johnny Rell with Extreme Ag. You know, we're out here today, we're getting ready to start the grain dryer up for the day 00:00:04 and you know, you know, we bought a superior grain dryer four or five years ago now, and it's, it's probably one of the most important 00:00:10 pieces of our operation. It, uh, it does a lot for us throughout the harvest season, keeping our combines running 00:00:15 because, you know, we try to start early for this early harvest premium. Most years there's always a really good harvest premium. 00:00:20 And then some years when we plant this double crop corn in October when we're trying to harvest it, you know, 00:00:25 it's 25, 20 6%, still mid-October. So you're gonna have to have a dryer for sure then to get it dried out because we're running outta heat 00:00:32 that time of year to naturally dry it down. So, you know, for us it's just a very important piece of our operation and I was just gonna kind 00:00:38 of show y'all some basic steps of how we start this land off every morning and kind of show y'all what it looks like when it's running. 00:00:44 So we'll come out here to the main control panel here and we'll open it up and when we get it open, you know, superior's got a pretty basic concept going 00:00:52 as far as their control panel. It's just basically all off switches. And we'll just start off by turning everything in your 00:00:58 main interlock into auto. We'll start off the wet field, the dryer's already filled. If not, it would light up, up here. 00:01:05 We'll start off the unloading, we'll get it going. The next step's gonna be to actually turn the fans on and they'll come on and sink. 00:01:12 You'll see how they start over here and come across. So as all the fans start kicking on and everything like that, the next step is going 00:01:21 to be the grain, the heat element of the grain dryer. So your burner's gonna come on. So once all the fans are running, we'll turn the burner on, 00:01:29 and today we're gonna be drying at 190 degrees. It's kind of where we're gonna be running at today. We got several combines running. 00:01:36 We're not drying much at night because we lose our heat at night. You know, it's cooling down into the sixties here. 00:01:42 It's a lot more efficient for us to dry during the day. So what we do is we always crank up in the mornings and let that dryer run unless we're in some really wet corn 00:01:49 and we need to dry at night. But right now we're running at 21, 20 2% range, so the dryer's able to keep up pretty good. 00:01:56 And you know, right now the wet band's about half full. We'll be cranking up the combines in an hour and a half or so. 00:02:01 So, you know, it'll, it'll catch up. And if we get in trouble, we got a second wet band, but we could always turn this temperature on up. 00:02:07 You know, we've dried on up into the, you know, two 20 range when we really need to, when we're trying to dry some, you know, 30% moisture corn. 00:02:14 But today, 180, 190 degrees where we're gonna be running and, you know, we should be running in 00:02:19 that 4,000 bushel an hour range, which is a, is a good range for us. It's, it's very efficient and very cost effective. 00:02:25 You know, we're very fortunate, we're on natural gas, so our cost to dry at 10 points is running with electricity about seven, 8 cents. 71 00:02:33.205 --> 00:02:35.625