Vomitoxin/Don....

[farming101]

No kidding..

Back to your first post, if fusarium is the only downgrading factor then cutoff levels have got to be relaxed. Too much good wheat going by the boards

[MBgrower]

Great margins to be made at export terminal, blend it away at no cost.

[farmaholic]

.5% fus for a 1 or 2 CWAD may as well be set at zero...........same as .25% for a 1 CWRS!

[biglentil]

.5% fus for a 1 or 2 CWAD may as well be set at zero...........same as .25% for a 1 CWRS!

Yep its crap if they weren't screwin us there they would be hammering us on hvk. Big crops more gauging, little crops less gauging. Fricken robots building cars but we have a humans picking samples. They have no motivation to replace that capital labour. CGC had been infiltrated by corporate interests drain the swamp.

[Rareearth]

Need a wiki leaks for the grain industry? Who, where, when, why and How ...
Heck set up a crime stoppers reward program

[wmoebis]

[QUOTE=Rareearth;334853]Need a wiki leaks for the grain industry? Who, where, when, why and How ...
Heck set up a crime stoppers reward program[/QUOT

Something like a Grain Farmers Advocacy Office? That was suggested in the 2004 Compas review of CGC.

[farmaholic]

....only twelve years ago. And probably needed now more than then.

[bucket]

You guys.....you can't tell private companies what to do ....or ask them anything either.....just statscan can interrogate farmers.

[farmaholic]

MS_GR110
Minneapolis, MN Tue Jan 03, 2017 USDA Market News


Prices Reflect No. 1 Milling Quality Only. Milling Quality is defined as
300 or better Falling Numbers; 58 lbs or better test weight; 13.5 pct or less
Moisture; 1.5 Pct or less Damage; 1.5 Pct or less Dockage and 2.0 ppm or less
vomitoxin.

RAIL - Spot Change TRUCK
Wheat on MGEX Floor/Delivered Chicago/Beyond 20 Day To-Arrive
US 1 Milling DNS/NS Wheat Mpls Dul
11 Pct No Quote - - - - - -
12 Pct No Quote - - - - - -
13 Pct 6.2750N dn 0.5 5.1750 - -
13.5 Pct 6.4750N dn 0.5 - - - -
14 Pct 6.6250 -6.6750 up 4.5-dn 15.5 5.4250 - -
14.5 Pct 6.8250 -6.8750 up 14.5-19.5 - - - -
15 Pct 6.9750 -7.0750 N dn 0.5 5.5250 - -
16 Pct No Quote - - - - - -
17 Pct No Quote - - - - - -


November 2016 AVERAGES
Average prices are for spot market unless otherwise denoted.
MGEX wheat/Delivered Chicago/Beyond
No 1 DNS Wheat 13% protein 6.2626
14% protein 6.3026
15% protein 6.5644




These prices state delivered Chicago/Beyond. So I guess we would have to back freight off to the farm gate and take the exchange into account.

[bucket]

Let me try this phrase again....

North American grain standards


No sense in having perfect product if the competitors don't and they can still sell for a better or equal price?

And really it doesn't matter graincos can pull from which ever global warehouse they choose.


The 2.5 million tonnes of floating vessels out west are positioned to get grain when the other warehouses can't supply.

[Redone]

I don't really have a dog in this hunt, so its just an outsider looking in.

Was mycotoxins a concern 10 years ago? What has lead the grain producers down this path to mycotoxins, leaf disease, insect pressures, herbicide resistance, etc? It seems to me that money is being thrown at this problem only to have it show up somewhere else as another problem. Have rotations become too tight? Is production that much more per acre compared to 20 years ago that you can afford to keep throwing money at it?

Once again, I raise cattle so I have no skin on the table. Just some questions I would ask when looking at all the problems that seem to be happening in the grain business

[farmaholic]

Redone.....IMO, high input intensive continuous cropping is responsible. Environmental factors such as weather, pathogen innoculum and susceptible crops. Even with half decent rotations some crops within the rotation share the same diseases. Kinda hard to completely avoid the risk. Some areas have rotational limitations due to what crops can be successfully grown in them. For Pete's sake some weeds are hosts to common crop diseases. Who the hell wants to intensively till in erosion prone areas... chem fallow could exacerbate an already too wet scenario. Burning black sacrifices valuable organic matter. Continuous cropping has done wonders for this farm but has created other issues.

Mother Nature is impossible to out-maneuver.