Grain Cleaning

[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.