Dried True

A truck of wheat comes in at 19 percent moisture and the mill wants it at 14. How much grain will there really be once it is dry? Dried True answers in one look, on a display like a platform scale: the dried weight, the water that has to come out, and the bags it makes. The arithmetic is the honest one: the dry part of the grain stays the same while water leaves, so a lot's weight follows its moisture. On top of that comes the handling loss every yard knows about, from dust, broken kernels and spillage. Dried True starts from the figure you set for each grain and then learns the real one, dryer by dryer, from lots you reweigh after drying. It also learns how much water each dryer takes out in an hour, so it can say roughly how long the next lot will take. Each grain keeps its own standard moisture and bag size, and whether grain drier than the standard should count as heavier on the standard basis. Lots wait on their own page until you enter the weight and moisture after drying; then you see the real loss, and a chart of every lot through each dryer marks the ones that lost far more than usual. The pages sit around a scale dial at the foot of the screen: Weigh, Lots, Dryers and Settings. Tap one and the needle swings to it. Dried True works out weights from the moisture readings you enter. It is not a grading certificate or a moisture test. It keeps no prices or settlements, needs no account, and works offline.