Benefits in cash – pre-cleaning

Pre-cleaning performed immediately after harvesting allows to:

remove impurities, thus reducing the amount of material for drying – approx. by 5%.

reduce the moisture content of the raw material before drying by approx. 2% (for wheat)

This translates into the savings as specified below:

It has been assumed that lowering the moisture content of 1t of grain by 1% (1 t/%) requires the use of
approx. 2 litres of fuel oil (the cost of electricity and labour has not been taken into account).

raw material – 1 tonne * 4 t/% * 2 litres * 1,00 € = 8,00 €

material after cleaning – 0,95 tonne * 2 t/% * 2 litres * 1,00 € = 3,80 €

In the case of corn, pre-cleaning allows for greater moisture reduction (on average
fractions II and III have a moisture content lower by 4 to 6% compared to the raw material).
This translates into a higher amount of green waste.

Cost of drying:

raw material – – 1 tonne * 16 t/% * 2 litres * 1,00 € = 32,00 €

material after cleaning – 0.9 tonne * 12 t/% * 2 litres * 1,00 € = 21,60 €

Savings – seeds

Separation allows to select the best material for sowing, with similar
germination capacity.

For example, in the case of non-separated wheat with a germination capacity
of 96% after 14 days, the germination capacity after 7 days was 80%.

For separated seeds, these values were 96% and 92%, respectively. This translates into
an uniform grain maturation process during the harvesting period.

In the case of standard seeds, at harvest time about 80% of grain was ripe and ready to be
harvested, while the remaining 20% consisted of unripe or overripe ears.

The separation process in this example allowed to achieve approx. 92% of uniform,
ripe ears
. This translated directly into a 12% increase in yield and allowed to avoid
natural contamination of the field with spilled grains
.

The table below shows the savings achieved with the grain separation process in the analysed example

With our separator for pre-cleaning the harvested grain before drying,
selection of material before sale and the production of seed for your
own use, you can get a return on your investment after just 1 year!