Pulse Sub Committe meeting is Thursday this week.
Sure Tom, there is a color picture guide for greens that has not changed, no discussion there. The problem is a new interpretation on red color. Product that was graded 2 weeks ago, even by the Stoon CGC office as a #2 will likely not make it now. There has been a shift in the interpretation. There is data that says bleaching will drop splitting efficecy, but that data has not been entered into the grading standards and requires consulation with growers/industry.
I know the product that JD is talking about. Low damage, some white bleaching. I thought that the line cos where grading harder then the processing industry but that was not correct, the CGC instructed them to grade at these levels. Processors where grading where they graded in the past.
SGS grades the red crop and my feeling from their new grades is that there has been a major shift here. Some say it was being done wrong before, others say that the bleaching is different and must be analysised differently. I call BS. Yes there is more of it this year, but that does not mean there should be new standards applied.
Woembis-I think you took my comment to you incorrectly, i only meant if you look at the bleach on a #2 green color picture (was not stating that you have not looked at a color chart, meant WHEN you look at it...), there should be a similar tolerance for red lentil bleaching. You can drive a truck thru that green #2 grade, should be able to do same on reds (and CGC has stated in the past the color pic is relevant to reds). Especially on a product that is decorticated. If industry wants to argue that bleaching causes lower splitting efficiency then we need to have the consultation. Maybe growers over the long haul are better off with a tighter red #2 grade, but needs to be done prior to crop year not during it. Growers grew reds based on a looser grade and traders took forward sales on that same looser grade. Shit runs downhill and we know where the losses eventually end up.
Sure Tom, there is a color picture guide for greens that has not changed, no discussion there. The problem is a new interpretation on red color. Product that was graded 2 weeks ago, even by the Stoon CGC office as a #2 will likely not make it now. There has been a shift in the interpretation. There is data that says bleaching will drop splitting efficecy, but that data has not been entered into the grading standards and requires consulation with growers/industry.
I know the product that JD is talking about. Low damage, some white bleaching. I thought that the line cos where grading harder then the processing industry but that was not correct, the CGC instructed them to grade at these levels. Processors where grading where they graded in the past.
SGS grades the red crop and my feeling from their new grades is that there has been a major shift here. Some say it was being done wrong before, others say that the bleaching is different and must be analysised differently. I call BS. Yes there is more of it this year, but that does not mean there should be new standards applied.
Woembis-I think you took my comment to you incorrectly, i only meant if you look at the bleach on a #2 green color picture (was not stating that you have not looked at a color chart, meant WHEN you look at it...), there should be a similar tolerance for red lentil bleaching. You can drive a truck thru that green #2 grade, should be able to do same on reds (and CGC has stated in the past the color pic is relevant to reds). Especially on a product that is decorticated. If industry wants to argue that bleaching causes lower splitting efficiency then we need to have the consultation. Maybe growers over the long haul are better off with a tighter red #2 grade, but needs to be done prior to crop year not during it. Growers grew reds based on a looser grade and traders took forward sales on that same looser grade. Shit runs downhill and we know where the losses eventually end up.
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