Producer Car

[farmaholic]

Is blending(could have all unloaded into the same bin anyway, but lets call it "paper blending" for the hell of it) of all the six cars an option or were the 4 that made a #2 grade borderline themselves?

[zeefarmer]

Samples were very even. Falling number, protein and dockage were nearly identical from harvest samples, samples sent to Inspectorate, samples sent to Intertek from car loading and final unloads, except for the one car that was high on dockage at unload.

I've always tried to keep the best samples possible. Usually a 5 gal pail per 4500 bus. Bad samples lead to bad relationships with end users. Seen it happen too often custom hauling.

[farmaholic]

Good to hear you have the bases covered for off spec deliveries. Right on!

[farmaholic]

With a bit of tact and diplomacy I think they'll bend.
Good luck!

[zeefarmer]

From what I remember (paper isn't in front of me), the unload total for the 6 cars averaged #2?? (Don't know 100% if they averaged the grade)13.1 px 0.9 dockage 351 FN. So on paper it blended.

[zeefarmer]

But even a 3 was 50 cents/bus higher through a producer car than a 2 at the local elevator when we contracted.

Mind you, it's better to put it in a pigs belly right now than sell 1 13.0 for milling.

[foragefarmer]

If CGC did inspection at unload you would have 15 days for re-inspection. If Intertek did the inspection at unload call for re-inspection. Your samples at home are of no value at this point. The only samples that count are the unload samples. Frost is visual, therefore it judgement call as the unload sample is compared to an official CGC sample that they would have. US grading is way different than Canadian. Did you sell it to a US company. Talk to buying company and ask if blending is possible.

[mustardman]

You probably know this butsome dont.. make sure you take a pail from each load,mix and then from this Mix pail take a few scoop to put in Keeper pail.

This is the most accurate, but you probably already new this , and I hope they do the same at Unload

[farmaholic]

foragefarmer. Unless the unload was taken by an unbiased independant third party instead of the receiving companies employee, whats makes the unload any more valuable in this circumstance than the loading sample?

As I said.... He said....She said.

In fact the loading sample "COULD" be more accurate than the unload sample!

[farmaholic]

In my description of the sample taker, I should have also used the word "certified".

[foragefarmer]

All producer cars I have shipped have had certified third party grading. As for the sample that you have at home, it means nothing. The ONLY sample that counts is the sample taken from the car. It is taken by a little bucket system which takes a sample during the entire car as it unloads.