Producer Car

[PrairieDude]

Are your samples accurate and consistent? Or did u fill up a coffee can in 5 seconds and call it good. I need my harvest crew to get better at this too.

[zeefarmer]

Yes it does. Contract was based off #2 13.5 px. Had provisions for either a 1 or 3, protein scales up and down. Dockage was 1.5% and lower.

[farmaholic]

Is blending(could have all unloaded into the same bin anyway, but lets call it "paper blending" for the hell of it) of all the six cars an option or were the 4 that made a #2 grade borderline themselves?

[zeefarmer]

Samples were very even. Falling number, protein and dockage were nearly identical from harvest samples, samples sent to Inspectorate, samples sent to Intertek from car loading and final unloads, except for the one car that was high on dockage at unload.

I've always tried to keep the best samples possible. Usually a 5 gal pail per 4500 bus. Bad samples lead to bad relationships with end users. Seen it happen too often custom hauling.

[farmaholic]

Good to hear you have the bases covered for off spec deliveries. Right on!

[farmaholic]

With a bit of tact and diplomacy I think they'll bend.
Good luck!

[zeefarmer]

From what I remember (paper isn't in front of me), the unload total for the 6 cars averaged #2?? (Don't know 100% if they averaged the grade)13.1 px 0.9 dockage 351 FN. So on paper it blended.

[zeefarmer]

But even a 3 was 50 cents/bus higher through a producer car than a 2 at the local elevator when we contracted.

Mind you, it's better to put it in a pigs belly right now than sell 1 13.0 for milling.

[foragefarmer]

If CGC did inspection at unload you would have 15 days for re-inspection. If Intertek did the inspection at unload call for re-inspection. Your samples at home are of no value at this point. The only samples that count are the unload samples. Frost is visual, therefore it judgement call as the unload sample is compared to an official CGC sample that they would have. US grading is way different than Canadian. Did you sell it to a US company. Talk to buying company and ask if blending is possible.

[mustardman]

You probably know this butsome dont.. make sure you take a pail from each load,mix and then from this Mix pail take a few scoop to put in Keeper pail.

This is the most accurate, but you probably already new this , and I hope they do the same at Unload