Vomi Test most Grain Company Employees laugh at how useless it is.

[walterm]

We need a regulator or a policeman....hearing lots of issues with graincos backing out of contracts....but who do you call.


Know of a guy with January contracts still outstanding.....

And you have mark hemmes saying things are fine.....

We had a regulator/police that could have been given expanded mandate to cover issues, until Modernization of the Canadian Grain Act and Sec 9 was repealed with no replacement was implemented like was recommended in review. It is obvious now that this Modernization was only about making money for the CGC they now have over 100 million of producers money and are increasing charges to make even more. All the while reducing services and regulations for farmers and industry.

[Braveheart]

Until the weather changes fusarium (and vom) is here to stay. It won't matter if you burn or mouldboard plow, the innoculum will be on grasses in ditches and wasteland.

I think plant breeding is the best hope for the future. Finding or breeding lines with resistance, full resistance is the way as the wet cycle appears to be here for awhile.

[Braveheart]

Has anyone out there compared SGS testing to a grain co on the same sample? I heard that grain cos got some kind of new testing kits (rapid) and I'm wondering if they're accurate?

[walterm]

Has anyone out there compared SGS testing to a grain co on the same sample? I heard that grain cos got some kind of new testing kits (rapid) and I'm wondering if they're accurate?

Would also be interested in seeing comparison from Non regulated/tested remote probe sample that farmers are forced to accept, to certified/regulated crosscut sampler that grain co's ship on. This is the kind of work CGC should be doing "in the interest of producers"

[bucket]

With the money the cgc has ...every complaint should be investigated. ...not be told you as the producer can sell subject to grade...get the **** off your asses and tell the grain companies to smarten the **** up....

When I call and ask for advice and then know the grain Co is ****ing me ....they should be at that elevator pronto....


I sold flax at 12 percent dockage and yet when I had it cleaned for seed ...my cleaner guy took out 11 percent....I got ****ed bad on flax this year....

[D.Advocate]

With the money the cgc has ...every complaint should be investigated. ...not be told you as the producer can sell subject to grade...get the **** off your asses and tell the grain companies to smarten the **** up....

When I call and ask for advice and then know the grain Co is ****ing me ....they should be at that elevator pronto....


I sold flax at 12 percent dockage and yet when I had it cleaned for seed ...my cleaner guy took out 11 percent....I got ****ed bad on flax this year....

Ummm, are you saying that you got hosed on 1% ????? Seems well within a reasonable tolerance from load to load. Not quite following this one.

[farming101]

I sold flax at 12 percent dockage and yet when I had it cleaned for seed ...my cleaner guy took out 11 percent....I got ****ed bad on flax this year....

Over 8% dockage surcharge too I guess. Lightweight did it make a #1?

[farmaholic]

I think seed cleaners clean heavier than what would be classified as "commercially clean". What's also painful is the penalty paid for dockage over certain percentages.

I had good luck with selling to a special crops buyer I've done business with in the past.....have a good relationship with the guy. Good flax, milling quality. Respect reciprocated when respect is received....both ways! But I will call bullshit when I "think" I see it.

[Sharecropper]

The one thing going on lots this year is Vomi and a test.

It is really a big joke as talking to a lab assistant this weekend. They say you get the grain do the grinding etc from a batch then do the test and it comes out at 2.2. If you take the same material you just worked on and do two more it could be 3 and 1.7.

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Although it looks like these numbers are pretty far apart, they are measured in parts per million. As a percent, you're talking about .00022% compared to .0003% and .00017%. All are within a couple ten thousandths of a percent. I find it hard to believe that these tests are as precise as they are given the minuscule amounts involved.

[Braveheart]

The trouble is, .99 ppm is a saleable product but buyers start getting picky at 1.1 ppm.