Free Dockage

[biglentil]

Who else thinks its a little unfair to get the big goose egg for dockage? Especially when feed is so valuable.

[Jdhot]

Some places pay for it. Last year the price paid was next to nothing. Maybe it will inprove this year. Sorry to see WIT sold to P&H. They used to pay as well.

[stonepicker]

if you think your dockage is valuable then clean it yourself and sell it yourself.

[wmoebis]

We used to know what we were actually charged for cleaning and transportation. If they had to pay us for the dockage I am sure thy would make it up somewhere else.

The CGC lists maximums they can charge but how do we know what they are actually charging?

There is a lot of money made on dockage, when we used to own the elevators the profit was channeled back to us through reducing costs at port and dividend checks shown as profits.

Do we now have a more transparent system like was asked for?

[farmaholic]

Wmoebis, maybe that should read: Do we have a more transparent system like promised? That was one of the burrs in people's asses, the lack of transparency with the old system.

On dockage, the guy who cleans our seed grain pays. $70/tonne.

Last year I got paid $3.50/ bushel by a feedmill for absolute shit durum screenings, pure white with fusarium.

If we're worried about dockage, what about those 1% "handling charges" by some special crops processors? What do you call that?

[riders2010]

I call that employee trip to Mexico in winter is what that 1% is.

[sumdumguy]

Is that shrinkage you talk about Farmaholic?

[sumdumguy]

Stone picker is right. From my experience in the seed cleaning industry, I know how much I lost to dirt, chaff and moisture loss and I figure I am lucky only being deducted 1% when I am the seller. Whenever the weigh over is done in a seed cleaning plant, you are short because dust is blown out the aspirator and as the grain is handled some weight is lost due to abrasion and moisture loss. You probably don't believe me Farmaholic but I kid you not.

[farmaholic]

....and who pays for the loss/shrinkage(spilled grain, combine throw out, dust and abrasion, moisture loss) on the operations of my farm?

I don't doubt you for a minute. But if all is with in spec, moisture and dockage(dirt would be dockage) was "fairly" taken why should I pay for the plants inability to maintain/contain the product they bought?

I believe the CGC said shrinkage rules changed and after that the "deduction" got renamed, "handling charges". Please re-read the second paragraph.

[hobbyfrmr]

When we clean for seed I bin the screenings. It takes a couple years but, screenings bin 13 usually makes a land payment.
It could also pay for a very good family vacation but I purposely put it against land as some kind of spite against the conventional industry.
Its immature, but i dont care.

[pourfarmer]

We get paid decent for organic sceenings, so I take a ugly dirty sample on the combine and clean it up on the farm. As Hobby says, it pays pretty well for the time it takes to set it up.

Another bonus is that it keeps a lot of weed seeds out of the field

[wmoebis]

You would be suprised at how much dust is removed. At least on paper, Dust bins aren't physically audited just paper audit.

[farmaholic]

wmoebis.... I think that was funny,.... was it supposed to be?