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Safe Storage Time Calculator

The Safe Storage Time Calculator aims to help growers keep on top of drying and cooling at harvest to protect the quality and safety of their grain in store.

The targets for drying and cooling grain set out in the HGCA Grain Storage Guide  are well established but not always easily achieved in practice. The Safe Storage Time Calculator will help to identify grain in most urgent need of attention.

The tool uses information entered on the moisture and temperature levels for stored grain to assess the risks from mould and mycotoxins development, loss of germination and the potential risk for attack by insects and mites.

It reassesses the risk each time farmers and storekeepers input new temperatures and moistures and takes into account the total storage history as the grain is monitored, showing the time in days until the risks become critical.

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Safe Storage Time Calculator    (186kb)