Use heated air for drying grain

Grain is rapidly dried to below 18% moisture content (15% for long-term storage)

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Best Practice Guidance:

• HGCA (2004) Drying and Cooling Grain: An Update. HGCA Topic Sheet 78.
• HGCA (1998) Bulk Storage Drying of Grain and Oilseeds. HGCA Topic Sheet 16.

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