2026-05-03 · Giorgi Kapanadze

Moisture belongs on the dryer sheet, not in someone’s head

Wet tonnes flatter a late field. A dryer sheet that lists moisture beside each load is the only way two plots can be compared without an argument about “it was damper that week.” Field performance is not only how full the bin looked at dusk.

If the meter lives on the dryer, write the reading on the same paper as the wagon count before the load disappears into a shared heap. A number remembered at supper is not a number. Giorgi will not accept a single farm-wide moisture figure and then pretend the hill field and the flat field were the same crop.

Some growers worry that writing moisture makes the yield look worse. It does not change what left the field. It changes whether you blame the variety, the sowing date, or the week it rained on the swath. That is the point of keeping the reading.

If you have no meter, say so on the yield note. Guessing a percentage to look complete is worse than a blank with a date.