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Every grain farmer knows the importance of drying to ensure a high-quality, market-ready end product. In fact, once harvested, cereals need to be dried in order to keep their quality unchanged over the storage period and, consequently, their commercial value. ...

Grains, such as wheat, rice, barley, and many others, are harvested with a certain degree of moisture, which needs to be reduced to avoid the proliferation of microorganisms, mold growth, and product degradation during storage. We have seen in previous ...

Germination is an important stage in the life cycle of a crop because it represents the moment when the embryo contained in the seed begins its growth process, becoming first a sprout and then the actual crop. In particular, maize ...

Corn, rice, soya and sunflower are just a few examples of crops that occupy a large part of the agricultural area in Italy and Europe in the summer season. In the specific case of corn, the area devoted to this ...

Different high-performance grain drying technologies, conceived and designed according to our customers’ needs, which occupy little space and guarantee a high quality of the dried product: this is the mission of the entire Mecmar team. With 60 years’ experience in ...

Approximately 2 billion tonnes of cereals are produced each year: products that need to be secured before moving on to the storage phase. In fact, the moisture level that cereals have at harvest time must be taken into account and ...

Clean grain is of higher value than grain contaminated with straw, chaff, weeds, soil, trash or other materials foreign to the grain. Grain is in fact an organic, living product, and the two elements that comprise it – moisture and ...

With proper wheat drying, your farm will be able to effectively remove excess water in the grain to ensure good preservation and storage. You will then be able to resell your crop when it has reached the commercial value you ...

Still looking for a machine to roast your soybeans at minimum cost and maximum productivity? Within this article, the Mecmar team will explain the most relevant aspects to consider when choosing the right roasting machine. In addition to these, we ...

As a rule, freshly harvested grains need to be processed and transformed to become animal or human food. Corn is no exception, which, being rich in fibre and cellulose, needs to be roasted in order to be made digestible. To meet this particular need, Mecmar ...

At harvest time, every crop – be it soya, oilseed rape, oats or other – needs to be dried in order to retain its nutritional and commercial value. But is it possible to dry different types of crops using the ...

Did you know that Mecmar mechanical dryers are able to process both rice and corn excellently? In fact, they are very flexible in use and perfectly capable of drying all types of grains: rice, corn, wheat, soybeans and more. If ...