Drying grain with wheat straw?

[woodland]

Ma Nature is drying our grain for us before it even heads out. Can’t beat that for efficiency 😉

Wonder if I could get a grant to study this…………..🍀

[Austrian Economics]

Thought there was an outfit in Manitoba selling bale gasifiers for heating. Had bales on a conveyor or something. Looked elaborate and aimed at large scale heating projects. The bale idea would work for grain drying but if you don’t dry a bunch and infrequently, you’d have to work it into a whole farm heating system to justify cost. Even running an ic engine on the gas to make your electricity.
Costs of landing the straw and capitol cost would be atrocious plus the fact you’re exporting nutrients.

My thoughts exactly. You don't need to dry every year, and you often don't know now much you will have to. So you would have no choice but to bale enough or buy enough for a worst case scenario and then dispose of a lot of straw if you don't need it.

[WiltonRanch]

My thoughts exactly. You don't need to dry every year, and you often don't know now much you will have to. So you would have no choice but to bale enough or buy enough for a worst case scenario and then dispose of a lot of straw if you don't need it.

Might make sense if you are a mixed operation and use straw already. Straw after a year or so wouldn’t be great for burning but better for cows. I could see this of some benefit to particular types of operations but it being any sort of silver bullet for the grande scheme is negligible.