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Storing Of Wet Grain Could Result In Bulk Freezing

With the wet harvest, extra attention will need to be paid to stored grain over the winter.
 
Angela Brackenreed is with the Canola Council of Canada.
 
"You want to be looking any spikes in temperature throughout the profile of the bin," she said. "If you have cables that helps with that monitoring, but certainly we don't want to just rely on this technology. Manually probing, pulling out loads out of the bin, that will help to brake up any hot spots that have started but also give you a closer look at it, a physical feel of the bin."
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