I just have to ask. Are the Grain companies playing games with wheat?

[bucket]

If the falling number is well over 300 there is no issue with sprouts....they need a grading class....

[walterm]

I wonder if CGC will make public sprouted and sev sprouted % in comparison to FN on all the harvest sample survey grading results. Sure would answer a lot of questions and accusations.

[farming101]

serious question , to you seed cleaners
does sprouted wheat clean out on gravity table?

Do not have a gravity table but I highly doubt you could improve falling number economically by running it over a gravity table

[farmaholic]

Do not have a gravity table but I highly doubt you could improve falling number economically by running it over a gravity table

No but when it "falls" through the magic scale grate it can change grades! "Falling numbers" is a pun in this case. Should be called "increasing numbers" from a feed to a three, a 3 to a 2 and a 2 to a 1.

[farming101]

Likely need to find a friendly end user. Can't win with the elevator

[TASFarms]

Same in durum. Hvk in mid to low 90s with good bushel weight. Sold 10k bushels at harvest graded a 1. The rest of the field’s 4 other bins grade a 2 to 3. It’s like grade doesn’t matter, they only wanna pay $7.30 and no more

[helmsdale]

If the falling number is well over 300 there is no issue with sprouts....they need a grading class....

That's what I had been led to believe as well... If the sample has even just barely started the process of sprouting, an enzyme (can't remember the exact one) goes into overdrive converting starch into sugar. If that enzyme is high, falling number is correspondingly LOW. If that enzyme is low, falling number will be high, ergo the sprouting process has not commenced.

[Guest]

Fella today said he hauled malt barley
And germ was 98.5%, but alas , they said it was 8% chitted
Let that sink in ! How in **** is that possible????
Oh and guess what they deducted him $.40/bu for being chitted ?
Oh , and called the CGC , they said a 310 falling number with “severely sprouted” wheat is another physical impossibility, kinda like spotting a unicorn
So i said why dont you throw some samples in your car and take a road trip??
They apparently dont wanna do that?

[jazz]

Took a sample of red lentils in, nice looking all off before any wet weather. Should be a #1 easy. Nope there are a few kernels of durum in there that would be hard to clean and the end users dont like the extra glucose that adds to the sample, graded feed. My reply; F you. So people who dont make more than a couple bucks a day in India are that fussy about eating. I will seed the entire farm to lentils next yr before I let these go for pig feed

There is an active stategy to try and steal this crop while farmers heads are down. No terminals offer real help to try and move it. Waiting on trains everywhere. WTF is CP and CN doing?

[bucket]

Fella today said he hauled malt barley
And germ was 98.5%, but alas , they said it was 8% chitted
Let that sink in ! How in **** is that possible????
Oh and guess what they deducted him $.40/bu for being chitted ?
Oh , and called the CGC , they said a 310 falling number with “severely sprouted” wheat is another physical impossibility, kinda like spotting a unicorn
So i said why dont you throw some samples in your car and take a road trip??
They apparently dont wanna do that?

130 million dollar slush fund for a bunch of government incompetents.....and incompetence....