Yes, actually it can be literally days or weeks. Probably our worst harvest in recent memory was in 2019. Some of you may have seen that it had the tag line or the name “harvest from hell”. We were just on a mad scramble.
Typically you try to keep ahead of the harvesting combines with the dryer, but sometimes you can't so you end up putting your grain in your bins from the combines, but it's not really in a condition for long-term storage. It's a mad scramble, because you are trying to get this grain back out of the bin because you don't have much time. You pull it back out. It goes off to the dryer, and then it goes back into the dry bin.
Typically harvests should wrap up in October. In 2019 I was drying grain in November, December and January. I would go get a load here and a load there, run it through the dryer, and try to keep on top of that.
It's an awful lot of work and an awful lot of time.