Heating With Corn
Hey if your growing it already, why not! Excerpt below, full story link below that. Burning corn was common place in southern Illinois and Indiana. Siphon off a couple of acres worth and heat your home.
Rev. Larry
RINGTOWN - Farmers seeking an alternative fuel to heat their homes might save a few dollars by burning feed corn, according to Ronald C. Fetterman, Union Township.
In November, he shelled out $4,800 to buy a new corn-burning furnace for his home at 123 Aristes Road.
"I figured with what I'll save on fuel in two years, it will be paid for. This winter, I think I'd be spending more than $2,000 if I were burning oil heat. We're saving money because we're raising our own fuel," Fetterman, 76, who grows more than 60 acres of field corn on his farm, said Tuesday.
http://republicanherald.com/news/family-uses-corn ... -1.1649079
Rev. Larry
RINGTOWN - Farmers seeking an alternative fuel to heat their homes might save a few dollars by burning feed corn, according to Ronald C. Fetterman, Union Township.
In November, he shelled out $4,800 to buy a new corn-burning furnace for his home at 123 Aristes Road.
"I figured with what I'll save on fuel in two years, it will be paid for. This winter, I think I'd be spending more than $2,000 if I were burning oil heat. We're saving money because we're raising our own fuel," Fetterman, 76, who grows more than 60 acres of field corn on his farm, said Tuesday.
http://republicanherald.com/news/family-uses-corn ... -1.1649079
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The problem with burning corn is getting a supply of corn with the proper moisture content. I am told it burns well if it is dry enough, but much of it is not.
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There are small, local grain elevators near me that sell corn for burning at the proper moisture, and a couple farmers too, or at least a few years ago there were. Corn stoves were pretty popular here until corn went high. The price has dropped a lot this past year so I imagine quite a few in my area will get into it again. Of course thats right here, deep in the corn belt.
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Corn weighs about 56 lbs per bushel. Im not sure what its worth right now except around $4/bushel last time I heard.