Were Called 3 for sunday! Damage?

[newguy]

The Weyburn Inland Terminal installed a special cleaner a few years ago to clean it out.

[ado089]

Last year I put some wheat on a pile at nearly .2% ergot, came out of the pile within spec for #2. That tells me a gravity table will clean it up but not remove it all. Also leaving it stand longer will allow them to fall out of the head.

Frost would do a lot of damage even on the stuff thats been sprayed for quite some time.

[highwayman]

Gravity table or really good aspiration on any air and screen/indent machine will do a very good job of cleaning out ergot to where it is a non factor in grading. Ergot kernels are generally very light.

[BTOfarmallll]

Ergot Control - Get off yer Fat Ass and Mow The Grass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[craig]

Gravity tables for ergot are not the way to go. You end up with way too much good wheat still mixed with the ergot. Alberta now has a huge amount of color sorters that work very well on ergot with good through put rates.
Ergot levels in milling wheat need to be extremely low to make grade. At present they are still cleaning ergot out of wheat from last years crop.

[Braveheart]

BTO, we mow all our borders and still had ergot. And by the way the rest of me might be questionable but even Tom Cruise couldn't match my ass.

Fields that had feedlot manure applied had up to .04% ergot;fields that didn't have manure had .02% ergot. Manure somehow depletes copper or ties it up somehow (on our soil).

Tom, copper won't eliminate ergot but it's use does reduce ergot here. I don't understand everything about it. It has something to do with how open the florets are during pollination.

In economic terms, copper fertilizer at a half pound/acre is cheaper and easier than colour sorting or cleaning.