What is the tolerance for sprouts in cps wheat? I have 0.4% and I've been told it is feed. What else can we do with this wheat? Is the grading system the same in the US (for $1.50 between cps and feed there has to be somewhere else for it to go it is still 62lb and 13% protein). 80bu/ac x $2.00=crap Anybody got good stuff to blend? Agricore and dryfus say it is not a local problem but prairie wide. thanks
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Ron;
A test of the falling number would be a good idea... maybe send a good representitive sample south and get it graded... see what they think.
Winter Wheat growers have been struck with CWB sproutitis...
When will Canada (the CWB is in the drivers seat) wake up and use falling numbers to determine quality?
Beautiful wheat can have falling numbers below 300, and Canada Feed can have 64lbs/bu with 400 falling numbers... yet we fail to pay for quality... as long as it looks good...
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CWB is rumored to be using falling numbers to grade it IP Snowbird program.
It will be a wreck if the used visual grades. They could be short 75% of thier projected production. Will they do the same with HRS? Probably not. Why create all that trouble? Thier supporters don't like change.
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I agree it is time for a change here. It may be time to start a new grade, call it "Subject To Grist" You pay a fee upfront for the extra costs, the Grains institute (CIGI) or the like, evaluates your sample, and you are given the full saleable particulars in a report. Now the catch will be same old, same old, your sample didn't match what you shipped. So bin it like Malt barley. Anyway it is not in the elevators interest if farmers will keep handing over this Feed product to be fleeced. They get paid by the tonne. So if you don't rise up to demand it guess what? it is not going to change. It would be a start and could be in place for any host of quality issues over the coming years. Any other thoughts on this?
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The "wheat milling value vs visual grade" issue is getting lots of discussion this fall. I've getting calls from producers about it so I did a little research on the subject and wrote a backgrounder.
The backgrounder is too big to post here but anyone interested, please send me an e-mail and I'll e-mail what I've found out to you. My e-mail is lee.melvill@gov.ab.ca
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