Different Marketing Meetings with Different Elevator companies?

[Burbert]

Comedian framers take what they get,
like it er lump it!! Only impartial
terd party, is the Comedian Grain
Commission. Who in the f&*k would waste
time with that organ?
Get them ta grade your grain fer a fee a
course, or the kid at the elevator usin
his screw sampler...... Butt framers
kin always dream aboot a fair honest
system where the multi'sll pay fer good
grain and dock poorer grain.
Unfortunately there is no such thing as
good grain in Comedia, only marginal at
best, im my experience!!!

[DogPatch]

Whats wrong with the Ergot tolerance? Ergot is a poisonous fungus, and takes effort to clean out. Why wouldn't it be subject to some sort of downgrading?

[SASKFARMER3]

Dog patch yes it is a problem, but world specs
are.5 not.3 like Canada. So we're over docked.
Falling numbers is more effected by July aug rain
during harvest of winter wheat, Canada is a spring
crop most is above 300.
Funny part was two companies were higher grade
don't worry and one is lower base worry a bit. Two
were its like canola one it's major leagues.
Time will tell I'm probably getting a protien tester
for fall and smaller bins ordered instead of 50000
bushel. Durum I think we're done growing. Not
sold on cps wheat either.
Oh well canola acres on our farm will be down
that I do know.

[Digger]

CGC specs for ergot are 0.01% for 1CWRS, 0.02% for 2CWRS, 0.04% for 3 CWRS, 0.04% for 4CWRS

[SASKFARMER3]

Sorry and acceptable on world is .05

[DogPatch]

http://www.sac.ac.uk/mainrep/pdfs/tn601ergotcereals.pdf

According to this article for dreary old England, the max acceptable level of Ergot in Milling flour is 0.001%

In it too, they say it is an offense to even sell grain with greater than 0.1% ergot by weight.

[SASKFARMER3]

Well the Cargil Grain buyer said that the
Standard world wide is .05 so maybe thats
warbiton with their special price program
for farmers where it was .01. Ill go with
the Cargil head.

[poorboy]

Most wheat shipped to our local flour mills is a number 3 that meets falling numbers. So if the flour we are eating in Canada is .03 ergot (No. 3 tolerance), then why did we allow the CGC to set No. 1 tolerances at .01?

We have been hurting ourselves in selling wheat to other countries by having grading standards that are too rigid.