Burn Down Days 2025 Results

Regional reporting will take place within 1-2 days after samples are collected. See the Burn Down Days schedule here. If you’d like moisture testing outside of the dates listed, or have any questions, please contact your Ag Partners nutritionist or agronomist directly.

9/18/2025 reporting

Sample Collection Date: September 16, 2025

Regions: Ellsworth, WI

Overall Summary: Here are the results of our September 16^th results as reported from the lab. A typical guideline is to add 2-3 points of moisture when a sample is run through a chipper instead of a chopper. We are starting to find a fair number of samples that are appropriate moisture for harvest. About half of our samples are still probably too wet for harvest. (Lee Kloeckner)

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9/12/2025 reporting

Sample Collection Date: September 11, 2025

Regions: Ellsworth, WI

Overall Summary: Here are the results of our September 11^th results as reported from the lab. A typical guideline is to add 2-3 points of moisture when a sample is run through a chipper instead of a chopper. These samples were on average 2.5 points wetter than the samples we pulled on Tuesday. No, the corn is not gaining moisture, the samples were just collected from different farms and fields. (Lee Kloeckner)

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9/11/2025 reporting

Sample Collection Date: September 10, 2025

Regions: Goodhue, MN

Overall Summary: Here are the results of our September 10^th results as reported from the lab. A typical guideline is to add 2-3 points of moisture when a sample is run through a chipper instead of a chopper. The average of the samples collected in Goodhue has not changed since our collection day last Thursday. The wettest and driest samples were both about 3 points drier than last week. Most of the samples collected are still too wet for harvest. (Lee Kloeckner)

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9/10/2025 reporting

Sample Collection Date: September 9, 2025

Regions: Ellsworth, WI

Overall Summary: Here are the results of our September 9^th results as reported from the lab. A typical guideline is to add 2-3 points of moisture when a sample is run through a chipper instead of a chopper. For samples collected at our Ellsworth location average moistures have dropped about 2 points in the last five days. Most of these samples were from different fields than Thursday’s samples, but some were from the same parts of a field. (Lee Kloeckner)

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9/9/2025 reporting

Sample Collection Date: September 8, 2025

Regions: Elgin, MN

Overall Summary: Here are the results of our September 8^th results as reported from the lab. A typical guideline is to add 2-3 points of moisture when a sample is run through a chipper instead of a chopper. Some heavily diseased samples are drying down rapidly. Other samples are getting close to appropriate moistures for corn silage harvest. (Lee Kloeckner)

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9/5/2025 reporting

Sample Collection Date: September 4, 2025

Regions: Ellsworth, WI, Goodhue, MN and Lewiston, MN

Overall Summary: The first round of 2025 Burn Down Days results are in as reported from the lab. A typical guideline is to ad 2-3 points of moisture when a sample is run through a chipper instead of a chopper. Most of these samples are too wet for typical storage structures. 

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