{"id":1465,"date":"2016-10-08T08:10:07","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T13:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxidationtech.com\/blog\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2016-10-08T08:21:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T13:21:57","slug":"wet-year-causes-high-levels-micotoxins-harvested-grains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxidationtech.com\/blog\/wet-year-causes-high-levels-micotoxins-harvested-grains\/","title":{"rendered":"Wet year causes high levels of mycotoxins in harvested grains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It&#8217;s been a wet year here in the Midwest.\u00a0 Wet years are great for crop yields however, the moisture also causes higher levels of mold in the fields.\u00a0 Certain strains of mold leave by-products called mycotoxins, like aflatoxin and vomitoxin.\u00a0 These toxins cause health issues in livestock and humans if this grain is consumed as food stock.\u00a0 Therefore, the mycotoxins must be reduced, and removed if possible.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Wet year causes high levels of mycotoxins in harvested grains<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpr.org\/wisconsin-corn-farmers-battle-mold-thanks-wet-weather\">http:\/\/www.wpr.org\/wisconsin-corn-farmers-battle-mold-thanks-wet-weather<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image-index-1\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com\/iowafarmertoday.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/c\/49\/c4933640-8bcc-11e6-b16f-cb2cca7bcc18\/57f65851e4524.image.jpg?resize=620%2C413\" alt=\"Cob rot from wet harvest\" width=\"252\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowafarmertoday.com\/news\/crop\/wet-weather-creates-harvest-challenges\/article_06d8da9c-8bcc-11e6-af91-d7eb1c0d7732.html\">http:\/\/www.iowafarmertoday.com\/news\/crop\/wet-weather-creates-harvest-challenges\/article_06d8da9c-8bcc-11e6-af91-d7eb1c0d7732.html<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"corn field\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wpr.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/resp_orig_custom_user_wide_1x\/public\/articles\/2016\/10\/Cornfield.jpg?itok=Uixr4dKs&amp;timestamp=1475699139\" alt=\"Corn field - wet year cuases increased mycotoxins\" width=\"252\" height=\"172\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ozone is a potential solution to reduce or remove mycotoxins from grains.\u00a0 The use of ozone gas in a grain bin, silo, or other storage method may prevent or remove mycotoxins from your grain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxidationtech.com\/applications\/grain\/micotoxin-removal.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"grain remediation with ozone\" class=\"center fit\" title=\"grain treatmeint with ozone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oxidationtech.com\/media\/wysiwyg\/Ozone_for_Grain_Treatment.png\" alt=\"Ozone for micotoxin reduction in grain\" width=\"406\" height=\"312\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; margin: 19.2pt 0in 19.2pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif;\">\u00a0<em><span style=\"font-family: 'inherit',serif;\">Ozone gas is produced via an ozone generation system.\u00a0 This ozone gas is pumped into the grain bin and diluted with existing air flow to treat the grain.\u00a0 Ozone treatment may be necessary over the course of days or even weeks depending upon your specific application.\u00a0 Ozone equipment is available in trailers that can be set near the grain bin for the duration of the required ozone treatment.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 19.2pt 0in 19.2pt 0in;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'inherit',serif;\">Ozone monitors can measure, and verify ozone levels leaving the grain bin to ensure ozone gas has passed through the entire grain bin and a residual of ozone is present.\u00a0 This will verify operation of the system.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; word-wrap: break-word; margin: 19.2pt 0in 19.2pt 0in;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxidationtech.com\/applications\/grain\/micotoxin-removal.html\">Learn more about ozone use for mycotoxin reduction and available equipment HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a wet year here in the Midwest.\u00a0 Wet years are great for crop yields however, the moisture also causes higher levels of mold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-ozone-news","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxidationtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxidationtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxidationtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxidationtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxidationtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxidationtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxidationtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxidationtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxidationtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxidationtech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}