Accumulated surplus

[wmoebis]

Re-implement the commissioners and decent grading system with vomi and falling numbers.

Grain Farmers Advocacy Office.

[farmaholic]

As far as I'm concerned, right now the CGC is part of the problem and not part of the solution when it comes to vomi and fusarium tolerances. Like I've said thousand times before, with the tolerances set where they are, they may as well be zero!

How hard is it to pick out .25% for CWRS to knock it down a grade or .5% to knock durum down two grades.....****ing ridiculous! Then the NON-GRADING factor vomitoxin that is getting used to beat us down. A while ago I posted a link to a NDSU paper that claims vomitoxin is seldom dangerous to humans unless "consumed in very high quantities".

What happened to mildew and ergot tolerances? And in the meantime billions will be stolen using unrealistic fusarium tolerances and the vomitoxin lie!

Maybe it would be easier to haul everything to the slough and let "insurance" compensate for incompetancy instead of standing up and speaking out against unrealistic expectations. In 2014 I grew commercial salvage...cleaned it(about 18-20% removed) and got $7.06 for the cleaned product and $3.25 for shit screenings!

[Blaithin]

Excuse this question if you like. I'm a beef farmer, my understanding of the politics of grain are next to nil. Also, I understand the ability to vent online.

But to you guys who really don't seem to like terminals... Are you friendly when you deliver grain? Because it just seems to me that you would be quite grumpy old farmers based on what you say on here. (Not saying this in any sort of relevance to what your grain ends up grading. Just curious if you're nice to their faces and then spew disgust and dislike everywhere else) Also, do you think/feel terminal staff are out to get you or do you differentiate between them and the procedures implemented by the companies and CGC?

[Daylate]

Put a vomi tester and kits in every elevator and service them so they can buy grain that day. Not wait a week or more and miss a market, and not send it to their own lab only to have results 2ppm higher than any other places. Have talked to many producers that had atleast 2ppm higher across all samples and all from the same company.
I sent all my 200,000 bu. in 22 different samples to 4 companies/lab. 1 elevator company was out to lunch. Consistently, and many customers.🤔

[biglentil]

Put a vomi tester and kits in every elevator and service them so they can buy grain that day. Not wait a week or more and miss a market, and not send it to their own lab only to have results 2ppm higher than any other places. Have talked to many producers that had atleast 2ppm higher across all samples and all from the same company.
I sent all my 200,000 bu. in 22 different samples to 4 companies/lab. 1 elevator company was out to lunch. Consistently, and many customers.🤔

Start with V and end with an erra?

[westernvicki]

Start with V and end with an erra?

While every load will vary, insuring accuracy and accountability with standardized testing should be a pillar of our industry. The Western Standards Committee who are appointed by the CGC and represent farmers and industry in grain standards, is the place to go with this as I know in the north we see protein all over the map.

[farming101]

An NFB film of how things used to be done. the whole show is 23:11 minutes

In the film you can tell when the assistant commissioner showed up at the elevator it was serious business

[URL="https://www.nfb.ca/film/grain_handling_in_canada/"]https://www.nfb.ca/film/grain_handling_in_canada/[/URL]