hopefully this isnt to confusing.
APW wheat 10.5% protein ASW Up to 10.4% test weight Test weight min 76 kg/hl price $ 225 219
AGP wheat no protein limits test weight 68 to 75. price $185
Now a lot of our states harvest has been downgraded to agp which is Australian general purpose wheat.
Due to continual rain.
Now its become apparent this week at elevator sites high protein agp is getting binned with apw and low protein wheat is getting binned as asw wheat but growers only receive agp payment.
Only at vitterra/glencore sites and sites are at bursting point and have come out and not denied its happening there reasoning is "well if we don't elevators will shut"
Nice way for glencore to pick around 40 bucks. Seemingly the blend will be 85 of expected grade with 15 percent agp and will still make the specs.
Not much we can do except wish we had Canadian fail safe classification system........ actually nothing wrong with classification as such just what there doing at elevator.
Basically truckers are saying hang on your sending us to wrong bunker powers to be say no all will be back to normal next week. Our local elevator has been shut for 4 days while they rail some to port to make room.
Go back to single desk days without proof one could presume it also happened but not so blatant
have a top weekend guys and basis for these lower grades is eroding here in oz.
Another question odd isn't it we can ship grain to china apparently cheaper than we can get it to port 160 kms transportation issues are getting muddied here down under as they are in western Canada I'm sure.
Other minor drama is falling numbers machines and testing a dogs breakfast again with initial visual classification if one sprouted grain is seen in sample goes for test if not seen no test.
Get uni students etc who want to do the job right and basically turn every grain with a pair of tweezers and always find something after 2 minutes wereas the old guys been there since moses cast there eye over it in 10 seconds and say shes good go no sprouted grain here, some elevators are avoided as testing is stricter/
another rumour doing the rounds some African countries are hell bent on getting cheapest wheat possible for there people and are supposedly going to stock two years supply at these cheap prices,
I take that with a grain of salt as I doubt they have infrastructure to store it and possibly currency to buy it but who know deals done behind closed doors at times
end of novel kinda marketing related
APW wheat 10.5% protein ASW Up to 10.4% test weight Test weight min 76 kg/hl price $ 225 219
AGP wheat no protein limits test weight 68 to 75. price $185
Now a lot of our states harvest has been downgraded to agp which is Australian general purpose wheat.
Due to continual rain.
Now its become apparent this week at elevator sites high protein agp is getting binned with apw and low protein wheat is getting binned as asw wheat but growers only receive agp payment.
Only at vitterra/glencore sites and sites are at bursting point and have come out and not denied its happening there reasoning is "well if we don't elevators will shut"
Nice way for glencore to pick around 40 bucks. Seemingly the blend will be 85 of expected grade with 15 percent agp and will still make the specs.
Not much we can do except wish we had Canadian fail safe classification system........ actually nothing wrong with classification as such just what there doing at elevator.
Basically truckers are saying hang on your sending us to wrong bunker powers to be say no all will be back to normal next week. Our local elevator has been shut for 4 days while they rail some to port to make room.
Go back to single desk days without proof one could presume it also happened but not so blatant
have a top weekend guys and basis for these lower grades is eroding here in oz.
Another question odd isn't it we can ship grain to china apparently cheaper than we can get it to port 160 kms transportation issues are getting muddied here down under as they are in western Canada I'm sure.
Other minor drama is falling numbers machines and testing a dogs breakfast again with initial visual classification if one sprouted grain is seen in sample goes for test if not seen no test.
Get uni students etc who want to do the job right and basically turn every grain with a pair of tweezers and always find something after 2 minutes wereas the old guys been there since moses cast there eye over it in 10 seconds and say shes good go no sprouted grain here, some elevators are avoided as testing is stricter/
another rumour doing the rounds some African countries are hell bent on getting cheapest wheat possible for there people and are supposedly going to stock two years supply at these cheap prices,
I take that with a grain of salt as I doubt they have infrastructure to store it and possibly currency to buy it but who know deals done behind closed doors at times
end of novel kinda marketing related
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