Fusarium

[stonepicker]

Some winter wheat in the area combined. 14% fusarium, not good. Glad i don't have any this year.

[MBgrower]

Bad in mb, hearing 4 to over 10%.

[AgrivilleAdmin]

New AC Emerson Winter Wheat variety with first R Rating for Fusarium.

[Braveheart]

North of Killarney, MB fusarium at 15%. Deloraine area winter wheat is 20% fusarium damage. Glenboro, MB reporting 2%.

Flourish variety seems especially bad. Emerson not faring well here either.

[Oliver88]

What grade deduction and price deduction does each % of fusarium equal with our friendly grain companies?

[stonepicker]

it'll be a crop that a person is gonna have to sit on and wait for opportunities, i would think.Too bad, usually a good cash crop.

[bgmb]

Another good reason not to grow ww

[JDGreen]

Question? Can it be cleaned out by density or seperated by color. Never have to deal with this problem but just wondering.

[Braveheart]

Gravity tables clean some. Colour sorter is probably better. Companies were also relying on blending.

Farmers with 20% damage have been told there currently is no market for their wheat.

[wmoebis]

Ontario and MB Dept of Ag recommend turning up fan and closing sieves on combine and blowing it out back even if you blow 2% good wheat with it.
If you can do that with combine why can't it be done at time of cleaning and become DKG?
Just wondering id it could be included in cleaning for grade improvement.

[Hopperbin]

Have not delivered wheat to the elevator for a few years but are they not supposed to test fusarium after dockage removed. If true cleaning would only have so much economic benefit.

[Klause]

Fusarium kernels can be the same size as wheat hopper... All depends on timing.

[Hopperbin]

Had 66 lb soft wheat last year that was testing 3 to 10 percent. All heavy. So cleaning likely limitted effective on that stuff.

[Hopperbin]

Agree that a gravity table set correctlybwould take some out. How much expense would one want to incure 40 cent cleaning. More hauling. Screanings to deal with. Lets hope our grain companies blend it for us so we dont have to haul a hundred miles. Some of you guys would be hauling much further.

[Braveheart]

Our area used to depend on SK wheat for blending. Car multiples would come in, be offloaded, blended, then shipped south. If SK wheat is affected that option won't be there.

Turning up combine fans doesn't work well at all. "Tombstone" kernels are too close to the same weight as a good kernel. Also, elevators don't usually have gravity tables inland.

The next question would be how high are DON levels. Even if infected wheat was cleaned, DON levels may remain high.