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Costs and Benefits of Redefining the Grade Factor - Broken Corn and Foreign Material

1994, 80 pages - 1023k

Research finds that significant reduction of broken corn at destination can only be accomplished by introducing incentives for delivering corn with greater resistance to breakage. Drying temperatures, genetic differences, harvest moisture, and combine adjustment all have an effect on breakage susceptibility.

Topics covered include: Properties of Corn screenings, Costs and Benefits of Screenings, Support for Separating the BCFM Factor.

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