Guides & knowledge

Guides on tobacco curing and grain drying.

Straight, useful answers on sizing a tunnel, cutting curing fuel, deciding on one crop or two, and drying grain safely. Written from years of doing it, not repeating it.

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Tobacco curing

What size tobacco curing tunnel do you need?

Getting the tunnel size right is the difference between a smooth season and a curing bottleneck. This is how we size a tunnel to your hectares, your reaping rate and your fuel.

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Tobacco economics

One crop or two? Why we always recommend one

Two crops from one curing setup sounds like double the money. It rarely is. This is why we always recommend a single, well-timed crop.

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Tobacco curing

Cutting fuel costs in tobacco curing

Fuel, power and labour decide the margin at the end of the season. This is where the fuel actually goes in a curing tunnel, and how to use less of it.

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Grain drying

Drying maize safely: the moisture target that matters

Store maize too wet and it spoils. Over-dry it and you give away weight you were paid for. This is the moisture target that matters and how a dryer hits it.

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