How is it better to sell wet corn and threshed dry corn kernels?

Summary: With stalk-on wet corn and threshed, sun-dried corn, which way of selling grain is more suitable for farmers?

Corn harvest season is arriving one after another, and both corn growers and farmers who buy corn are very concerned about the price of corn. Some merchants who buy corn asked, "Wet corn ears are over 0.4 yuan, dry corn kernels are over 0.8 yuan, which is more suitable to buy?" Here I will give my personal view.

Which is more cost-effective, dry corn or wet corn?

As for the question of which way is better for selling corn, growers are actually quite concerned about it too. The wet corn mentioned here generally means farmers selling the corn stalks together with the corn. Dry corn generally means farmers threshing the corn, drying it in the sun, and then selling it. It can be said that both have advantages and disadvantages.

First, from the perspective of how the corn is used, if you are buying silage corn, then personally I think the wet corn together with the stalks is better. If you are a grain middleman buyer, buying wet corn first in order to earn some price difference and then drying it in the sun before selling, there may be a profit of 100 to 200 yuan in between, but this profit is still relatively low, so it is still necessary to consider it carefully.

Also, let us calculate an account

At present, on the market, if the wet corn is the kind with only the corn cobs, the price is somewhat higher than that of wet corn with stalks. Generally it is about 0.3 yuan per jin, and one mu of land can sell for about 600 to 750 yuan. Wet corn with stalks is about 0.15 yuan per jin, and calculated this way, the price per mu sold is similar to that of wet corn with only the cobs.

Now let us look at the price situation of dry corn after threshing and sun-drying. At present, the market price of dry corn is about 0.9 yuan per jin, and the average yield per mu of cornfield is about 800 jin to 1,000 jin, so calculated this way, one mu of land can sell for around 750 yuan or more.

With this comparison, it becomes quite obvious that dry corn is still somewhat more expensive than wet corn. Of course, the labor input is also greater. Wet corn can be sold directly at the edge of the field, while dry corn still has to be hauled home, husked, threshed, dried in the sun, and so on. Not only does it waste some fuel costs, but it also wastes manpower, so naturally the price has to be somewhat higher.

So if you are going to buy corn, you still need to make a comprehensive consideration according to your own specific way of using the corn.

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