My neighbor ..lol
Wish I could do some drone video's of my other neighbor, M&W Seeds. They have a huge seed corn operation but they won't allow me to video them. I can take some still pictures of their main plant and bins as well as the shelling operation (seed corn is harvested on the cob and then trucked to the drying and shelling plant where it is removed from the cobs, dried and stored in grain bins by variety). The it's conveyed to the packaging operation where it's either put in Supersacks or in 50 pound bags, stitch sealed and tagged with the type and maturity date. It's all automated btw.
Talk about grain bins, M&W has a double row of grain bins (tanks) about 1/2 mile long and loading them is also all computer controlled. Takes like 3 employees to run the entire shelling, drying and filling operations.
All the stripped cobs get recycled as animal feed and bedding. Nothing is wasted.
Glad I don't pay their NG bill. Consumers energy ran a 10" pipe from the nearest town out the their farm The dryers are huge and so are the burners.
How I get my off grade seed corn to burn in my biomass stoves. If a batch of corn won't 'germ' at 95% or better, it cannot be sold, so I get it. Have a never ending supply of off grade seed corn to roast.
Quite an operation and the also harvest soy beans for seed but mostly corn.
Won't burn off grade no germ soybeans, being an oil seed, it burns way too hot for a biomass stove.
We have a generator here at this farm as well but only for emergency backup. it's a 30KW diesel powered unit and it's plumbed into my bulk storage tank.
Have to take some pictures, they are just getting into taking off seed corn right now.