Grain inside a bin normally smolders rather than burst into open flames. But grain in a dryer gets enough oxygen that it can burn with open flames. After they knocked down the flames in this dryer fire, the fire fighters had to remain on scene until the bin was empty in case there was grain that was still smoldering. They were drying sunflowers.
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| Dryer fire, Blanchard, N.D. Photo: Special to KFGO News (source) |
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This is not worthy of a separate post, partially because I don't know the location. But it is worth noting.
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| Farm Babe posted The corn in our grain bin continues to burn. The fire department comes and puts it out as best they can sometimes... but it's contained and just needs to burn and run its course. For those unaware, our field corn grain crop has to be about 14-15% moisture for us to store it. Due to the unusually cold and snowy/wet fall harvest we've had, when we harvest it's been too wet to store, so we put it in these giant dryers. Think of it like a huge dryer for your clothes, only for grain. We check the dryers regularly, but sometimes things go wrong and now we watch some of our hard work from this year's harvest go up in flames. We do have insurance at least, so that will help. Low commodity prices and high input costs, late and wet flooded planting, wet harvest, propane shortages, a lot of breakdowns, and now this. 2018 was a really tough year for many farmers but 2019?? |
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