Allied Mills screwing farmers over with dodgy claims?

[An Gof]

Sorry to drag up this thread again, but I have a question -

Grain contracts specify certain specs such as moisture, bushelweight, admix etc etc. What they don't (or at least in my experience, mainly selling for feed) state is whether a specification breach is a deduction issue or a rejection issue. Take moisture for instance - any load reported as being just a fraction over 15 would often have a claim for a few pence/ton. It isn't stated where this becomes a rejection issue - 16%? 17%? 17.5%? Same goes for specific weight etc.

I would be pretty annoyed to have a load rejected, particularly after a long haul, for something being very marginally under-spec, but presumably the mill would be within their rights to reject rather than claim a deduction if it suited them at the time?

Do any merchants/mills publish guides of spec breach outcomes, such as (in the case of moisture say, but applicable to sp. wt. etc as well) "xx pence per 0.1% over 15%, over xx% results in rejection" so everyone knows where they stand? (Maybe they do - as i say most of what I sell is for feed so thankfully rarely have these issues).

Always negotiate any fallback allowances when you sell the grain as part of the contract for that sale.

 

[B'o'B]

Always negotiate any fallback allowances when you sell the grain as part of the contract for that sale.

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