Vomitoxin/Don....

[farmaholic]

And where is Bayer's headquarters? LEVERKUSEN GERMANY

[farmaholic]

Daylate.....if they can't beat you down with the fuzz stick they'll use the vomitoxin stick.

I've heard it said that vomitoxin can be high even in what "looks" to be low fusarium count grain.....I can imagine that "threat" is for suspect stuff that was cleaned because of high fusarium levels.....sigh.

I can't wait for the tests that measure unicorn urine and fairy dust in parts per billion...with a B.

[Daylate]

Lol. Yes. Waiting on vomi test. But will be down considerably too. Has to be with the absolute useless white chalk and junk coming off the gravity table into the screening. I like beating myself in the head with a stick.feels good. Gonna clean it all in hopes of being at least at 1 to 1.5% fuz with 1.5 to 2% vomi on average for everything.

[farmaholic]

The cleaning challenge is getting, or should I say leaving behind, the infected kernels with the same density as the good stuff and taking some good stuff out with the screenings. Tough gig!

Is anyone using higher cleaning technology than screens, indents and gravity tables? And what kind of results are you getting? What's the total percent being removed and having any issues getting the cleaned product to grade decent?

[wmoebis]

The cleaning challenge is getting, or should I say leaving behind, the infected kernels with the same density as the good stuff and taking some good stuff out with the screenings. Tough gig!

Is anyone using higher cleaning technology than screens, indents and gravity tables? And what kind of results are you getting? What's the total percent being removed and having any issues getting the cleaned product to grade decent?

Outfit out of USA claims to have machine that will clean fuss and remove Vomi. Think it is a little misleading on results but might be worth giving them opportunity to demo unit.


http://agrotech-almaz.com/ or Google - Almaz grain cleaning.

[Daylate]

They didn't work for us. Sorry. Got one sitting in the yard still. Demoed from flamans. Called aeromeh. Same thing. There's about 4 companies in Ukraine all making the same thing. Flamans flew 2 over to get them demoed and tried to see. Was only taking our 5% stuff to 3.5. not good enough obviously. Bebearder and grain vac was doing about that too. So no thanks. I was hoping for big things out of these furance fans too. Can get fairly good capacity without a huge investment. But no luck.

[farming101]

Your goal is to get it to a #3. If it doesn't pencil out (cleaning, time, moving grain back and forth, screening value etc) and you can't find someone to buy it within driving distance your options are limited to dumping it or storing it.

You might have to talk nice to the cleaner guy and see if he would test run a truck load. I wonder if with the decent stuff you have to start with that he may be able to do a good job without too many screenings. It is a lot easier to take 4% out of stuff that is 94% sound than it is to take 18% out of stuff that is only 80% sound. Huge difference.

This was discussed back in the fall. If it is going to get an automatic vomitoxin test then it's tough to say what the outcome will be.