My local elevator

**Herc** · Dec 12, 2020, 15:19

Must be fairly big elevator....

**Blaithin** · Dec 12, 2020, 16:31

Filling bunkers I assume? How many conveyers or augers for unloading?

**malleefarmer** · Dec 12, 2020, 18:36

Originally posted by Blaithin View Post

Filling bunkers I assume? How many conveyers or augers for unloading?

Bunkers yep dunno 10 maybe more

Another site did 21000 t or thereabouts

Sample stand slow point

**wmoebis** · Dec 12, 2020, 21:19

Originally posted by malleefarmer View Post

Bunkers yep dunno 10 maybe more

Another site did 21000 t or thereabouts

Sample stand slow point

Do you have to sample and have it assessed before you dump? Does quality factors decide where you dump in what bunker?

**malleefarmer** · Dec 12, 2020, 21:54

Originally posted by wmoebis View Post

Do you have to sample and have it assessed before you dump? Does quality factors decide where you dump in what bunker?

Yep protien, screenings retention oil etc etc.

Think 6 wheat segregation 4 barley maybe 5

1 canola 2 bean ithink.

Right to rail line 90 kms to port trucks to port think about 80 shorter route.

Vitterra/glencore selling unused elevators here a mate bought 12000 tonne site unused for 14 years $66,000

**farmaholic** · Dec 12, 2020, 22:24

After an expansion, one of the near by terminals was quite tickled about doing 4000 tonnes per day. That's close to 100 super-b's. Two pits.

It's fastest and easiest to grade wheat if it's all a good #1 or bad feed. It's the borderline stuff that slows the whole process down. Canola is easy(usually).
One of our locals adopted a kiosk stÃ½le delivery approach. Drive up to the probe and enter information into a kiosk, they probe, wait your turn to get on the scale/pit, enter more info at another kiosk, dump, enter your done, take printed kiosk 'slip of paper", leave. Only thing I don't like about it is there is no printed elevator receipt right then and there but you do get a digital one via email(and maybe text). What about "agreed upon" bla bla bla and grade etc disputes? Seems they want to speed up deliveries and have sacrificed the time it takes to interact with the producer/hauler. They grade it as they see it anyway, and alot of times the deals are cut with the "grain reps" not the "graders". If they want to call my wheat barley I dont care as long as I get paid for the agreed upon price based on our very representative samples.

**malleefarmer** · Dec 12, 2020, 23:16

Ive got exact same machine in combine as 3levator for protien/oil moisture.

Have bushel weigher and sceenings testers

So roughly we know grade before it goes in.

And with vitterra dynamic binning or upgrading usually good result.

Start a paddock of low protien look for buyers with flat price.

Bit of mucking around sell8ng wheat in oz to attain best best price but thats deregulation of markets.

**malleefarmer** · Dec 12, 2020, 23:33

https://www.stockjournal.com.au/story/7046335/tailem-bend-breaks-grain-receival-record/?src=rss https://www.stockjournal.com.au/story/7046335/tailem-bend-breaks-grain-receival-record/?src=rss

Better quantify all this.

I have a elevator 16 kms to my east which is were my kids schooled andmother lives. Maybe 45000 tonnes site but im going against frieght going there and limited segregations maybe 2 for wheat 2 for barley.

Once full shuts until some is trucked out. Often only a day. A â€œcâ€ class site.

My preffered elevator is the one above 26 kms to my west.

Never get full got hundreds of acres constantly building new pads for bunkers.

May take 1/2 million tonnes. Tis a â€œbâ€ class site. Stuff from above mentioned local site gets shifted to this one when full.

Storage and handling etc cheaper at the mega sites.

Itâ€™s actually a lightning rod for prices some years close to port going west, so suits exporters and packers but also lets say 4to 500 kms from very active domestic markets plus locally we have one feed mill uses 1000t wheat a week.400 t barley. Another mill about 2/3 the size mega chicken farm factories and piggeries the same and beef feed lots all within 100 kms.

Chicken and pig farms popular by corporates out here so darn hot and dry for 7 months of the year little humidity so stuff all disease.

**malleefarmer** · Dec 12, 2020, 23:41

I know jazz questions my wisdom but we get no charges until 28 th feb then $1.20 per month.

Fumigated etc your wheat is graded and sits in h1 st@ck h2 apw asw gp or feed wheat stack.

You get paid on what you deliver if it outturned a 1% lower in protien stiff shitze if it out turns higher buyer has a win but they buy from the stacked average of the grade.

Doubt this is hard for you guys to grasp, been like this for last whatever 22 yrs.

My local elevator