The Cheapest Way to Dry Grain Is Not a Dryer

Dave Wall has been putting up grain bins on the Prairies since 1984, and he has a standing offer at his own seminars. Name the most economical and effective way to dry grain and he will pay you. Almost nobody says blending.Wall built the largest independent grain bin and dryer business in Western Canada on a mission statement about service, and this conversation covers what he has learned about the thirty days after harvest that decide what a crop weighs when it sells. His team now coaches upwards of thirty million bushels a year, and the most common thing they tell a producer is to turn the fans off.What's Inside- Why blending beats every other drying method on cost, and where a continuous flow bin dryer actually ranks- The counterintuitive finding from coaching thirty million bushels: most producers run their fans far longer than the grain needs- What two points of moisture disappearing in cooling costs you, whether the grain comes off the field hot or out of a dryer hot- Why he says a bin returns a dollar to a dollar fifty a bushel a year, and what that does to payback on the whole system- Why the dryer is the cheap part, and how a full dry bin stops three combines- The Sunday morning he wrote down fifteen reasons producers would buy, then ordered ten million pounds of steel Learn more about Wall Grain https://www.wallgrain.comConnect with Dave on LinkedIn here Wall Grain Instagram Wall Grain Twitter Connect with Growing the FutureWebsite: growingthefuture.caYouTube: Growing the FutureInstagram: @growingthefuturepodcastLinkedIn: Growing the FutureSubscribe to the Growing the Future Podcast wherever you listen, and register for Convergence Conference 2027 at convergence.ag.  Register for the Convergence Conference at convergence.ag and stay updated by subscribing to the Growing the Future Podcast at growingthefuturepodcast.ca.