Hemp Drying Barns

After drying you are ready to strip and separate biomass with the flower extractor system.

Hemp drying barns.

Whitewash is an age old method to freshen up barn that contains lime and salt. Using tobacco barns is probably the cadillac system but people have been successful with drying in buildings or barns if they could maintain good airflow and keep humidity at 60 or less. But those numbers are fluid and there are many new innovations farmers are coming up with to properly dry their hemp biomass. The trays will be placed in the mechanical dryer which has the capacity to do 1 040 trays at a time.

A tobacco barn might be what your after only instead of drying piles of leaves you would hang them. Unfortunately as those plants dry the branches droop down in the formation of a closing umbrella. Created in 2016 the hemp barn started as a small group of highly experienced cannabis experts who saw a lack of transparency and traceability in the current hemp and cbd product market. Irwin said the goal is to get hemp to around 8 moisture to be considered dry.

Remember that after you dry the hemp you have to keep it dry or it will absorb moisture and may mold. He plans on separating the flowers from the stalks at harvest and placing them in three by three trays. Or for about 3000 plants you will need about 15 000 square feet of barn drying space. Kentucky hemp farmers have already started purchasing most of the barns at auctions and equipment sales.

We started creating a drying room by removing everything from the barn blowing it out with a leaf blower and then applying a coat of whitewash. Hanging entire plants upside down on wires in the drying barn is a common practice. After harvesting transfer your hemp to your drying barn using a variety of live bottom trailers we offer and easily fill your barn boxes with the precision leaf loading system. A used barn can cost as low as 4500 right now due to loss of contracts for flue cured tobacco growers.

We have seen several methods for drying hemp. That closing umbrella shape results in less air flow to the center of that entire hemp plant. Drying time varies depending on heat but can get 15 000 lbs of material dried within 48 hours. The general rule of thumb has been you need about 20 000 square feet of drying space per acre of hemp biomass.