Charles Hurburgh, an Iowa State University agricultural and biosystems engineering professor, said Iowa typically has piles of corn across the state. But they don’t last long, given the state’s massive need for grain — from raising cattle, pigs, chickens and turkeys to producing ethanol. He estimates Iowa wouldn’t have space for about 400 million bushels of …Continue reading “Record crops + low prices = mountains of grain”
Ritter’s soybeans were harvested mostly at 8-9 percent moisture. This hypothetically trims about 50 cents from the $9 he might get from selling a bushel of soybeans, according to Charles Hurburgh, ag and biosystems engineering faculty and director of Iowa State University’s Grain Quality Initiative.
Original story by Tim Hoskins, Iowa Farmer Today. The moderate fall temperatures mean this year’s crop will likely have good storage qualities. With the wet summer weather, there was some uncertainty about how this year’s grain would mature. “I was skeptical,” says Charles Hurburgh, Iowa State University grain quality specialist and professor in agricultural and …Continue reading “Hurburgh analyzes grain quality, storage options”
Original press release by Phil Bogdan, AACC International St. Paul, Minn. (October 2015)–An ISO 22000 compliant food safety management system is vital for operations that store, handle, or process grain foods. Setting up such a system for the grains industry, however, can be challenging. General ISO 22000 food safety guidelines do not always translate well for …Continue reading “Hurburgh: Enhanced ISO 22000 guide translates food safety management standards for grain handlers, processors”
Iowa’s fast-moving harvest also could potentially be slowed as elevators occasionally stop accepting additional corn and soybeans to dry what they’ve got. Drying is critical to avoid the mold and rot that followed the wet 2009 harvest, said Charles Hurburgh, an ISU agricultural engineering professor. Farmers and elevators lost money. “I think we have learned …Continue reading “Hurburgh: Bumper harvest will likely mean losses for Iowa farmers”
Meeting a court directed deadline, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration submitted the final rule for the Food Safety Modernization Act for publication at the end of August, releasing information on its website on Sept. 10. Official publication in the Federal Register is scheduled for Sept. 17. Signed into law in early 2011, FSMA reforms …Continue reading “Hurburgh on Oct. 6th webinar to address FSMA’s impact”
Last week, Iowa farmers were about two-thirds finished with what’s expected to be 504.4 million bushels of soybeans, the state’s second-largest crop ever. Just finding space to put all the grain will be a challenge. Iowa State University professor Charles Hurburgh expects to see a record amount of corn piled across Iowa. He said it …Continue reading “Hurburgh: Finding space for grain will be a challenge”
Charles Hurburgh, professor of agricultural and biosystems engineering Hurburgh, an expert on grain storage, said Iowa farmers may have dodged a freezing-cold bullet last weekend when the possibility of a frost didn’t pan out for the vast majority of cropland in the state. “We got lucky,” he said. “Most of Iowa was about one degree …Continue reading “MEDIA ADVISORY: ISU agriculture experts available to comment on 2014 harvest”
