Corn dryer being built in southwest Idaho

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GREENLEAF, Idaho -- A corn dryer that will have the capacity to handle about 1,000 bushels per hour is being built in Canyon County in southwestern Idaho.

The dryer near Greenleaf will give corn farmers in that part of Idaho a closer option to dry their crop and help them trim transportation costs.

"It will provide another outlet for farmers to get their corn dried and it will save us some money," said corn farmer Mike Provost, who is partnering in the project and is one of four farmers already lined up to use the dryer.

The nearest corn dryers available to farmers in the Greenleaf area are located in Kuna in Ada County to the east and Nyssa in Malheur County, Ore., to the west.

"It's kind of a natural place to put one -- between the two existing dryers in this area" said Brent Zeyer, who is building the facility along with Provost and expects it to be operational this fall. "There's a real need for it and we think it's a good spot to put one."

Corn that Provost doesn't sell to a dairy farm is taken to the dryer in Kuna. He says the Greenleaf dryer will allow him and other farmers in that area to harvest their corn crop quicker and "not have to leave it out in the field longer where the weather gets to it."

Provost said there are several thousand acres of corn in that area that could potentially benefit from the dryer.

The amount of corn grown in Idaho has increased more than 100 percent over the past decade, to an estimated 350,000 acres this year, and the increase is directly related to an equally rapid increase in the number of dairy cows in Idaho.

Read more at http://www.capitalpress.com/content/SE-corn-dryer-042712
 
 
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