Terminals go UP UP UP

[farmaholic]

"Almost" unbelievable.....

Or GrainCos looking for "feed" barley with minimum germination. Unbelievable!

[Guest]

We can only dream of selling malt as you describe Mallee. Here you can haul to terminal a sample is probed before unloading and your barley goes in the pit. You get a scale ticket and go home to wait on pins and needles hoping the probe sample makes the grade for malt. Many reasons why it may not. When the line company takes your barley it all goes in the same bin as every other farmers so you know it all gets shipped out on the rail as malt. That doesn’t mean you will get paid for malt barley however. If the graders happen to find a heated kernel or the germ isn’t quite up to par or the plumpness isn’t up to standard or a myriad of other possible problems are found you get paid for feed.

feed at the lowest possible price
feed barley is $5 picked up here today

[TASFarms]

Their feed price is shit compared to what you can really get for it

[ajl]

Local terminal is bidding for feed barley with no wheat contamination in it around here. Wonder what the game is in that? A little wheat in feed/malt barley should not be a big deal would it? As for a new Viterra terminal, you are aware that the CPP is a major shareholder in Viterra, so there must be good money in gaming the western canuckistanian farmer.

[Oliver88]

feed at the lowest possible price
feed barley is $5 picked up here today

That’s great, the malt game isn’t worth considering if you can sell feed for this price.

[malleefarmer]

So if you guys have a protein machine a lot of farmers here do, which incorporates moisture of course, I have exact same as elevator think it was 13 k, a bushel weigher, and a screen which shows retention and or screenings. You should know in the field if it’s malt or not? Accepted variety of course.

I can do all the above and think yep she’s good to go as malt 95% of the time it is. Only thing is skinning or over thrashed grain, not cracked but skun. That’s stuff malt process.

Some of you elected farmer members on boards commissions in western Canada must address these issues or are they of on another tangent? Out of touch with real issues.

Our used to be called called grains council elected members think a dozen from across state, then local members in each branch.

Twice a year meeting in bud smoke plus regional meetings , often big smoke meeting 500 plus farmers would attend and thrash things out. If there kockknockers they got booted after one year one thing farmers hate in oz is professional farmer board members who collect 50 k a year for doing nah all and are on about 3 boards committed

You guys may not have that type but there weeded out quickly here

[Guest]

Not here
Thats all we have is professional meeting attenders
Collect money , stay in hotels and eat out
Usesless as shit
There are so many no one knows where to start to eradicate them
There are some commenting on here
All anyone can do now is get the check off money back they stole from us
Both levels of govt support the useless pricks here
Cdn farmers are really on their own here and being bled dry

[farmboy44]

Depends on the area, a custom trucker told me there will be a Richardson knocked down at Langenburg soon and there was a Viterra knocked down a year ago....farmers weren’t able to purchase either.

This is a very productive grain area so not sure why this is happening?

Might have something to do with having three canola crushers within an hour, and the fact it is no where near a full rail spot and likely could not be made into one. Not to mention close access to many larger terminals in Yorkton.

[malleefarmer]

Not here
Thats all we have is professional meeting attenders
Collect money , stay in hotels and eat out
Usesless as shit
There are so many no one knows where to start to eradicate them
There are some commenting on here
All anyone can do now is get the check off money back they stole from us
Both levels of govt support the useless pricks here
Cdn farmers are really on their own here and being bled dry

Is it farmer apathy or genuine bone heads and farmers just lost interest and faith.

Like our single desk debate and changes it was farmer driven via grass roots then it got thrashed out over two years before change happened. Wasn’t pushed through by parliament.

Trouble with professional meeting attenders as they say, they often have there own agenda and ideologies and force it upon farmers rather than the other way round which is the case here.