Milling Wheat Falling Numbers/ 04-05 grade

[Incognito]

Timm:

Its not too late to run for CWB director.


MNP/CWB (www.cwbelection.com)

[TOM4CWB]

Incognito;

Tim lives in an odd numbered CWB District... not that every CWB District is not "odd"!

No comment on the CWB contract thread Incognito..., how come?

Tim is right... it is amazing that every other country in the world has used falling numbers as a base for quality... for ever... and yet we must re-invent the wheel... and end up doing a falling number test in export position at Canadian Ports on every cargo anyway.

[Incognito]

I spent time on the Western Grain Standards Committee Tom in the mid-90's and they were talking about KVD and falling numbers then.

Its now 2004...this is an industry that doesn't want to change. Change has to occur from the farm up, not from Winnipeg down.

[timm]

this is really an issue between farmers and grain companies since the grain commission is in their back pockets.follow the money trail. check out cargills last quarter profits.its not the govt employees getting rich, they just dont have any balls.

[melvill]

timm, do you have direct experience with getting falling number evaluations on grain at US elevators or, at least, have you been to a US elevator and seen the testing done on every load.

If you have, please give me the company name and town or city of an elevator that does that so I can contact them to see how they do it and what their costs are.

Lee

[timm]

Sun Prairie Grain ,Bowbells N.D.

[TOM4CWB]

Charlie;

I am told that the CGC Grade Standards committee is meeting on Nov. 8th, to establish 04-05 crop year grades.

CGC Substandards preperation meetings were cancelled with only a couple of days notice... without reason.

Only in Canada!

[Ajax]

What frustrates me in this whole process is that my feed wheat might be as good as a 2 but even if I have the falling numbers to prove it, there is no way I could get a miller to pay me the same amount. Is 4 grams enough to average a 45 tonne load? One sprouted kernal in or out could skew the results?

[wd9]

Oilseeds Subcommittee was cancelled because harvest came too close to the scheduled date - Oct 25th - for an effective meeting given the cost to do such a meeting. As the chair rec'd no burning issues or agenda items and since the committee continually receives updates on research projects, the meeting has been put off till next time.