What are your chances of receiving the top prize?

[farmaholic]

Grade determinants...

CWRS:--- Fusarium--- Midge

#1--- .25%--- 2.0%
#2--- .80%--- 5.0%
#3--- 1.5%--- 10%
Feed 4.0%--- No Limit

Commercial Salvage >10% Fusarium
No Severe Midge in CWRS(???)


CWAD:--- Fusarium--- Severe Midge

#1--- .50%--- .10%
#2--- .50%--- .25%
#3--- 2.0%--- .75%
#4--- 2.0%--- 2.0%
#5--- 4.0%--- No Limit

Sample if #5 specs aren't met
Commercial Salvage >10% Fusarium



CW Malt: .2 Fusarium


Don't forget all the other "hammers" in the toolbox either.
Sprout, mildew, bleach, HVK...

This could be the type of year that proves how lucky you can be, or how hard it is to get, the top grades.

How hard will it be to pick .10, .25 or .50% damage, or even one or two percent? Haven't we moved past the impossible feat of growing those specs yet?

Oh yea but why do we have to spray.... asks consumers.

[farmaholic]

Sorry for the column issues. the three dashes separate the columns... hard for the technically challenged to make it right.

[farming101]

Chances went down for a big swath of the province no doubt.
We'll know before too long. It matters, but nothing can be done about it. Whatever.
Last year had a 5 inch rain near end of July. There was still some 1Cwrs around. Our's was poor.

[Oliver88]

Malt

Looks like it's a good year for no malt contract.

[farmaholic]

Wiseguy is right though. ...this is a CGC issue and where it needs to change first.

But don't forget to remind the Grain Cos that "grades don't matter", only price. So when they are using the "tools" the CGC has given them to pick our grain apart, tell them to tell their end use customers the same thing....don't worry about the grade. It does matter...and on years like this it will be even more important. Too bad the top grades are nearly impossible to attain.



wmoebis????????????

[hobbyfrmr]

About 5 years my conventional farming friend harvested some 15+ protein HRSW and he was delivering samples to line companies for grading. One company rep was testing and tells my friend it looks like there is frost damage on his wheat. It was late September and there had not been any frost to that date. The agent said, well, then, you have heat shrink on your wheat. Ha ha ha . So crazy.

[bucket]

My brother use to take his graded samples from here up to a friend's farm north of Edmonton and see what they graded.

Not sure if you can say there are grading standards in western Canada.

[fjlip]

Or the total joke of malt grading, only the best is malt, some years real crap still malt, some years too much perfect barley so reject for any dreamed up reason after acceptance. Got off that horse years ago.

[fjlip]

Neighbor was swearing at Viterra and malt barley rejected for sudden loss of germ. Richardson seemed magically to get germ.

[MBgrower]

Cargill hardest graders, Richarsons usually the best