Grain Drying: process and Applications in modern agriculture

摘要

Ever-increasing cultivated areas for growing cereals (also by mergers) require specific harvest plans to finish the harvest in the shortest possible time with most effectively utilized machines. The harvest plans can be drawn up early considering the sowing time and the sort. These schedules must be kept as exactly as possible as otherwise the complete operation for the rest of the year will be delayed, On the other hand, more and more supply contracts are concluded with a fixed date. The weather situation is and remains the great element of uncertainty. In Europe, a lot of farmers still rely on a "dry" summer to harvest the grain with storable final moisture. With this method, however, you depend completely on the weather and risk your economic success totally. Harvesting in time, in connection with a powerful drying plant, makes you independent of the risk factor weather. Especially annoying are thunderstorms and hail a few days before the official harvest date, as the year 2002 showed in an extreme way. Furthermore, the harvest has been recently reduced locally to less than 14 days by the permanently increased performance of the harvesting equipment. Therefore, the trend towards more and more powerful drying plants continues. Mobile and easily movable systems make it possible for the operator to react more flexibly to the demand on the market.