4% Moisture Canola

[TOM4CWB]

Ianben;

That is an excelent way to solve the problem! Turn on the fan!

[poorboy]

There has been lots of discussion in the US on adding moisture to grains to increase pay weight. This is deemed to be illegal.

However in doing internet searches there are lots of cases (court rulings as well), where the grain has been rewetted to improve its storage, and this has been proven to be LEGAL. The thinking is that very dry, very hot grain has lots of storage issues and running a fan to cool this grain and add moisture to reduce its cracking, peeling, and other things on rehandling is perfectly legal. You are not deliberately adding weight, you are deliberately improving your handability and storage of your product, which is perfectly legal.

I took it that adding moisture by fan is legal, adding by garden hose to your truck is illegal.


On a side note, it you add moisture to a bin of 9% wheat, with a fan, the wheat is going to swell and exert tremendous upward pressure on a grain bin. It might split the bottom of the bin open instead of pushing the whole column of grain upward.

[MBFarmer1]

Surprised to hear that nobody has added water to canola. One producer in my area has sprinklers set up with their loading bin. This setup has always worked well for him., As far as the legality of it, give me a break!!! Who is going to enforce something like that? Cargill calls the CGC on some farmer and gets CGC inspectors to come on to the farm? Likely not. I think this is an example of how farmers play in an industry where the buyers do everything possible, in terms of stretching and sometimes even breaking the rules to maximize profits but we as farmers are not willing to do the same because it may be labelled as "shady". Why is it shady to bring your product right up to teh required specs? Grain companies charge us for cleaning, dock us for dockage, then turn around and add that dockage right back into the grain at port so their shipments barely meet spec. Is this considered shady? No jsut business as usual. If the farmer however does something similar he is shady. Seems a bit of a double standard to me.

[seedsman]

I'm guessing the issue is more related to food safety. Not all water is pure!