Planted my corn during the middle of May, planted all 110 to 115 day full season hybrids except for one 105 day hybrid.

Resurrected Middle States bin drier.

In a normal year this full season strategy has worked because we have a dry and warm September and frost doesn't hit until mid October and I don't combine until early November. But this year was not normal and it stayed cool all summer and through September. Then October weather was more like November weather with several hard frosts, cold and rainy and with a touch of snow. And corn never dried down in the field.

The 105 day hybrid tested 31 percent yesterday after I sampled and shelled ears - and the grain was wet to the touch.

To my surprise, the kernels were gigantic with a lot of depth and girth since they hadn't dried down a point since frost-induced black layer formation. I am wondering what the kernels will look like when they shrink down to 15% moisture?

So it is November 6 and time and nature is no longer on my side so what do I do with super wet corn. Do I risk letting the corn stand in the field and naturally dry down a few points in a month when drying is slow maybe one to two points a week? Do I start combining and put it on air or do I dry it down with heat?

Fortunately we have a drier that we can use so I guess we bite the bullet and dry, however the logistics will be cumbersome to say the least.

We will start corn harvest with combining that 105 day variety planted on 42 acres and begin the long batch drying process. It will go like this, combine and fill drying bin, dry, cool and then move to another bin. Then start the process on over again.

Hopefully the weather will cooperate with us both with more in-field drying and when we need a day to combine 8,000 bushels to refill the drying bin.

This is one of those events that happens once every 10 or 15 years - the last one was in 1992.