Grain Cleaning

[RedLentil]

Their was lots of talk this past fall and winter about upgrading durum. Was there much investment in cleaning equipment to clean and upgrade durum(or any other crop) in your respective areas? Has their been any BoMills or optical sorters set up in local cleaning plants?

Also what are the going rates for cleaning seed in other parts of the province?

[farmaholic]

God I wish I had something to boast about in this thread......

[JDGreen]

God I wish I had something to boast about in this thread......

Crickets .......................

[walterm]

I would like to see some stats from our watchdog on the quality paid to producers verses the quality shipped to port and exported.

[farmaholic]

Ask Larry the watch/bull dog to look into it. In his newsletter he kinda did have the CGC's harvest grade distribution(how ever accurate that is) kinda compared to shipping reports. There were discrepancies...and with blending there likely always will be.

[Rareearth]

Crop insurance would have the best info.

[farming101]

Just guessing,
West coast durum exports look something like this:

Received as #1
85% shipped as #1
15% blended to boost #2

Received as #2
70% shipped as #2
30% blended to boost #3

Received as #3
100% shipped as #3

Received as #4 and #5
20% upgraded to #3
80% shipped by specification ("Other")

Received as "Other"
100% shipped by specification ("Other")

[sumdumguy]

How much on-farm cleaning was done to upgrade durum and how did it work out for farmers? Barley for malt-was that pre-cleaned too?

[walterm]

How much on-farm cleaning was done to upgrade durum and how did it work out for farmers? Barley for malt-was that pre-cleaned too?

Since basis includes cost of handling and cleaning is there a change in basis if you clean to export standards?

[Jagfarms]

We cleaned our durum. It went from sample to #3

Sample price was $3.40 bu
#3 price $6.50





When cleaned 75% was clean seed
25% was screenings
Now shopping the screenings around
Most of screenings are $100 tonne
can get $3.40 bu for about 25% of the better screenings

[walterm]

We cleaned our durum. It went from sample to #3

Sample price was $3.40 bu
#3 price $6.50





When cleaned 75% was clean seed
25% was screenings
Now shopping the screenings around
Most of screenings are $100 tonne
can get $3.40 bu for about 25% of the better screenings

Is there a diff in net returns on #3 cleaned verses #3 dirty? Since they don’t have to clean it and can put right into shipping bin?

[jamesb]

In our area lots of guys tried different things. For some, running through the vac lowered vomi on barley, for others it raised it. Some had good luck running durum or barley through those air machines flaman and others sell (most of them seem to be built in eastern Europe). We tried one with barley, didn't work good enough. We had the best luck running the barley over a gravity table, but it didn't work for every bin.
With barley one trick I was told to try if you have any hope of clean vom out of barley is to pearl a little and do the vomi test on the pearled sample. If it is still over one ppm after pearling, you are done as the vomi is in the kernel, not on the outside of the seed.