Adding water to Canola

[Jay-mo]

I have heard if you use a grain cart to hold the wet canola initially. Then fill your trucks from the cart it does a really nice job mixing it.
I do think if elevator's are going to have a deduction for tough grain they should be consistent and adjust to the farmers benefit if its really dry.
To be fair, with last years tough conditions, the elevator did average the moisture on my tough and dry canola so no deduction.

[Guest]

From what I can "assume".... volume. Now doing it on half or two thirds of that volume. Although this isn't about the difference between you and me, your profitable price/bu point is alot lower than mine. But that is my problem.

We had very little volume last year , seems everyone gets a kick , sure does hurt when it hits home. Hope rain comes soon to all of us. Especially the south

[helmsdale]

https://www.agriville.com/threads/6877-4-moisture-canola

An old thread on this very topic.

Interesting to look back 11 years and see hardly any of those posters are active today. WD9 is about the only one still going.

[Guest]

I have heard if you use a grain cart to hold the wet canola initially. Then fill your trucks from the cart it does a really nice job mixing it.
I do think if elevator's are going to have a deduction for tough grain they should be consistent and adjust to the farmers benefit if its really dry.
To be fair, with last years tough conditions, the elevator did average the moisture on my tough and dry canola so no deduction.

Auger mixes fine on its own

[taptout]

The key to adding water is to use potable water of course. I would imagine that somewhere,sometime, some arsehole used slew-water and put all elevator companies on alert. If you use potable water there is no way to tell if water is added and I am sure that it is not illegal to do so. The problem is water quality and the concern is water quality. If that concern is removed there is no legal problem that I can see.

[the big wheel]

No the only problem is that we're not being compensated for this. I don't do it but should be.

[wmoebis]

There can be a lot of money blending tough and dry grain (paper drying) that money used to come back to farmers through reducing costs and dividend cheques. Now that isn't the case guys are looking at ways to profit at home.

IMHO Modernization of the Grain Act was a joke and clearly a ploy to take money from farmers and cover CGC over runs. So I guess it worked to the tune of 100 mil until they got caught.

[ianben]

I still look in on here, We still get moisture bonuses of 1% , we get oil and admix bonus deductions too oil can really add up.

Here are the details.

QUALITY STANDARD: UK grown oilseed **** of Good Merchantable Quality, suitable for oil extraction under the terms of the FOSFA 26A contract applicable at time
of delivery. As at 31st May 2006 the Standards, Premiums and Deductions were as follows:

OIL BASIS 40% Premium of 1.5% of contract price for each 1% over 40%
Penalty of 1.5% of contract price for each 1% under 40%

MOISTURE BASIS 9% MINIMUM 6% Premium of 1% of contract price for each 1% under 9% down to 6%
Penalty of 1% of contract price for each 1% over 9% up to 10%

Buyer has the right to reject a parcel with over 9% or under 6% moisture content

ADMIXTURE BASIS 2% MAXIMUM 4% Premium of 1% of contract price for each 1% under 2% down to zero
Penalty of 2% of contact price for each 1% over 2% up to 3%
Penalty of 4% of contract price for each 1% over 3% up to 4%
Buyer has the right to reject a parcel with over 2% admixture content

[Oliver88]

Likely the easiest way to increase your moisture is to combine some canola at 12% (if possible) and store it in aeration with fans running.

Blend it with 6% canola.....grain terminals will paper blend.

[biglentil]

I think IanBen has the solution! Where is the canola council or do they only go to bat for the other team?