It remains to be seen what impact the recent derecho will have on fall grain drying demand. It will be a while before it’s determined how and if damaged corn acres can be harvested, according to Mike Newland, director of agriculture business development at the Propane Education and Research Council (PERC).
“We’re just trying to determine how many go to silage, how many acres try to get saved for grain and then what does that grain look like and how much propane it’s going to need,” Newland told Brownfield Ag News, “so we’ve got a lot of variables, a lot of pieces that are moving.”
PERC has developed online modeling tools to help determine how much propane will be needed to fuel grain driers, said Newland, but wind damaged acres will skew the demand scenario.
