CGC Grades and Blending

[Hopalong]

Wonder how many of us still rely on Canadian Grain Commission grades.
We have not used CGC dispute settlement mechanism for many years.
Instead, we rely on competition and grain company knowledge that we will go elsewhere if not satisfied.
In recent years there has been greater willingness to pass blending gains to producers.
Hope we do not return to conflict from past.

[farmaholic]

In recent years there has been greater willingness to pass blending gains to producers..

.......I don't think so.

[CptnObvious]

I used to depend on CGC grading to maintain my export quality, they used to inspect 2,000 tonne lots. Since they were gutted they now only guarantee the whole ship will average the spec. Different holds may go to different buyers and some have been burned. Canada's rep is on a downslide.

[wmoebis]

Cptn Do you have an answer/idea to fix problem?

[sumdumguy]

CGC is a great safeguard in direct shippimg of product. In special crops, their integrity has not changed. The sample usually costs $30 odd bucks. Alternative SGS, a recognized company, respected around the world, pretty much the same cost. We're lucky to have them.

[CptnObvious]

Our elected MP should be pressured( as much as they can recognize pressure) to bring back the CGC to where it can do its job. The money spent on CGC wages is clearly far less than what is lost due to unsatisfied customers.
Hopalong has it wrong about blending. The greatest opportunity to gain from blending happens at the terminal. Years ago blending was used to maximize the value of the pools, now the terminals just keep the money. Why not? It stopped being our grain when it hit the elevator pit.

[farmaholic]

Skip-onward is a wolf in sheep's clothing, an antagonist, a plant. I have to wonder what color the sky is around the planet he comes from. An odd perspective, he has.

[Braveheart]

So a company blends to meet a customers specific requirements. So what? As long as I am paid , on time, as contract price, who cares what happens after?

Blending isn't free for a company, and if they didn't undertake blending, sometimes your wheat might not be in demand for some time, if at all.

Don't bother trying to itemize everything in calculating basis, just learn what a good basis is for your location.

We sold wheat that under the "old" system would have grade low account ergot, but the basis (marketing freedom basis) reflected a much higher grade. The company had brought in a unit train from west and blended local ergot wheat up to meet a sale to the US. We benefited from the blending. It was passed on in the basis.

[Braveheart]

Hopalong a plant? Doubtful. He's just sees grain cos as his partner in a supply chain. If he becomes unhappy with the partner he finds a different one. (Sorry for putting words in your mouth Hoppy).

This is the opposite of those who view every one else in the grain trade as untrustworthy robber barons.

[CptnObvious]

The change in the amount of money that disappears between here and port shows that they are taking three times as much money for the same work. YES, they is robbin' us.
The railways would like to rob us too but they are inhibited by the law. They make out as best they can by giving us less service for the same money.