I would like to be able to get better estimates on what my final dry weight is going to be because the tension is always killing me the whole week I'm drying. I know I could measure it freshly cut and then work out a formula but for several reasons I don't like doing that.
Anyway I was just wondering if anyone ever bothered to weigh their drying crop day by day and record the results and put them on line. My guess is unless something is done to slow down drying the crop loses more weight early on, and less the closer it gets to being dry because the differential (between moisture content of green and humidity in air) is steadily decreasing so the air steals the moisture more and more slowly. Like diminishing returns.
Anyway I was just wondering if anyone ever bothered to weigh their drying crop day by day and record the results and put them on line. My guess is unless something is done to slow down drying the crop loses more weight early on, and less the closer it gets to being dry because the differential (between moisture content of green and humidity in air) is steadily decreasing so the air steals the moisture more and more slowly. Like diminishing returns.