Shrinkage and Other Corn-Quality Changes From Drying at Commercial Elevators
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Since 1905, the Department of Agricultural Engineering, now the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (ABE), has been a leader in providing engineering solutions to agricultural problems in the United States and the world. The department’s original mission was to mechanize agriculture. That mission has evolved to encompass a global view of the entire food production system–the wise management of natural resources in the production, processing, storage, handling, and use of food fiber and other biological products.
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In 1905 Agricultural Engineering was recognized as a subdivision of the Department of Agronomy, and in 1907 it was recognized as a unique department. It was renamed the Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering in 1990. The department merged with the Department of Industrial Education and Technology in 2004.
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1905–present
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- Department of Agricultural Engineering (1907–1990)
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- College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (parent college)
- College of Engineering (parent college)
- Department of Industrial Education and Technology, (merged, 2004)
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Weight losses and corn-quality changes from drying and handling were measured at two modern country elevators. In addition to moisture losses, material handing losses averaged 0.88% of initial weight, with a range of 0.64% to 1.33% of initial weight. There was a fourfold increase in breakage susceptibility and a twofold increase in physical kernel damage after drying. Load-to-load variations in moisture content and test weight decreased after drying while load-to-laod variations in BCFM, breakage susceptibility and harvest damage increased after drying.
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This article is from Transactions of the ASAE 27 (1984): 1176–1180. Posted with permission.