wheat grades& protiens

[farmerfudd]

My prodigy hrs wht. is still 5-7 days from swathing but will likely leave it for 10-12 days before st.combining.
There is alot of wheat comeing off now. I hear there may not be any movement of wheat till possibly end of Oct. Has any one got a solid grade and protien level?
I've heard yield from 28-58 within 70 miles. protien should vary as well.

[TOM4CWB]

Farmerfud;

East central Alberta has CWRS 1 and 2; not heard of much 3 being graded.

Px 12-15 average is what I have heard and seen.

By the end of this week most of the CWRS will be harvested... an easy run this year our moisture being about 12.5 average.

[melvill]

Tom, with the wheat dry like that, did you have to change adjustments on your combine to reduce cracking?

[NeilS]

All of the wheat is done in our area (Red River valley, east of Winnipeg). Mine averaged 13.5 protien, all number 1 grade, yield of 43 bu. I also had it tested at the local flour mill for falling number, which was 402.

I hear most wheat in this area has lower than normal protien some below 12, some as high as 16, but most between 12 and 13 percent. This is a surprise, as it was a dry year, in which yields are normally low but protien is high.

[TOM4CWB]

mellvil,

We tried to keep returns to a minimum, filler plates on the concaves to thrash better and slow down some to reduce loss.

Some wheat has come in at 9% moisture they were telling me; we have Canola below 4%.

[melvill]

One report from the Brooks area - hard white wheat on irrigations at 14.6% protein! That's unusually high for a field with "electric rain".