Farmers are going to be drying grain more than they want for this year's harvest season.

Humboldt and surrounding areas have been pelted with the wet and cold weather over the past few weeks. Causing crops to be unharvestable at this point which leaves farmers in the yard waiting for the grain to dry.

When the crops dry up enough for the combines to get in the field, the grain may not be ready for storage. Farmers have two options to dry grain before putting it in the bin. The first being a traditional grain dryer, which can be expensive. Option two is natural drying which takes more time but isn't as pricey. 

"If wet grain is stored for a period of time longer than even a couple of weeks then microbial activity will generate heat and cause damage to the grain. That downgrades the quality of the grain to the point where it may not even be sellable. So you can have $100,000 dollars of grain in your bin go to nothing and now you have the cost to dispose of it," said Joy Agnew Program Manager of Ag Research Services at PAMI.

If the weather does not get any better within the next week or so farmers may be forced to combine the grain tough and they may be spending more time drying grain than in the combine.