mustardman-spicy topic

[oneoff]

No.1 mustard....the only crop where the dockage determines the grade.

A tenth of a percent inseparable material (eg. grasshopper manure or any round material that can't be screened out) used to mean a significant percentage is stolen for more dockage. And not just a few percent more.

Forget it if you have grown canola or have wild mustard etc. etc.; but its worth a good price in the right years.

[GOODRUM]

Anyone know what color sorting costs?

[mustardman]

A cleaner can take alot of wild mustard out of yellow as the wild is much smaller seed.
If conditions create a small yellow mustard seed size then separation from wild is very tough if not impossible.

[farmaholic]

mustard, same with the cleavers, but some cleaver seeds are bigger and hard to get out. I am sure tonnes are color sorted but not for the Producer's benefit. I've seen ads in the papers for "offgrade" mustard. Bet I know what they're doing.

[farmaholic]

Dave4111, chime in about the color sorting.

[ColevilleH2S]

After this spring all my nightmares include fleabeatles. Chomp,chomp,chomp all saying in unison, "no mustard for you."

[sumdumguy]

Colour sorting costs 2-4 cents per lb. Depending on the speed it can be sorted.

[mustardman]

Never had a problem with flea beatles on Yellow -due to hairy plant the bugs will be gone to nearest canola field.
Used treated seed first time I grew and after that seeded bare seed that costs about $.60 a pound. Slightly less than canola. lol

[farmaholic]

Shhh, others may catch on.

[Hopperbin]

Actually in my area flee beetles have totally eaten a crops of mustard in couple days. So they cannot be too resistant.