I hear of people doing it but is is possible to blend different groups for example if my mulika spring wheat was 14% and my extase group 2 was 11% is it possible to blend them and mix thoroughly in an opico and providing the analysis made milling spec would be be a saleable product?
Blending grain for milling
- Thread starter tr250
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Couldn’t possibly comment. 
I don’t think you’d even need an opico
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- Oxfordshire
Blend away, all central stores do it, quality is what matters
Last time I sent a load in with mixed grp 1 on it instead of a variety the lorry was kept there for hours, being resampled time and time again.
Woldgrain Storage
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- Hemswell, North Lincs
Gp1 buyers don't tend to like Mulika, as the gluten quality is lower than Crusoe, Skyfall etc.
Mills & Maltings like single named varieties because they know how each variety works through their processes, then they blend different varieties to get the end product that their consumer wants.
Mills & Maltings like single named varieties because they know how each variety works through their processes, then they blend different varieties to get the end product that their consumer wants.
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- Huntingdon
Yes, you can, but generally you would market it as the lower of the groups but declare the mix. Ie sell as gp2 but mixed 1’s & 2’s
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yellow belly
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many intakes keep samples and can test for varietyThat depends on what variety you put on the grain passport
The intakes ought to be keeping samples anyway!
Electrophoresis testing isn't cheap or quick. Is it used often @crazy_bull ?
Chae1
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- Aberdeenshire
Is it not the SKCS test they use for testing variety?
We had a load rejected cause it was too hard. Buyer wanted soft wheat. It was skyscraper.
We had a load rejected cause it was too hard. Buyer wanted soft wheat. It was skyscraper.
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- Essex
Maybe just call it a variety of your choice next time?
yellow belly
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- south west lincolnshire
If you sell/contract states a specified variety then you should deliver it
same with quality if contract states hagburg protein moisture ect then deliver it
if the buyer tests it and finds it out of spec there is a system to arbitrate a claim
same with quality if contract states hagburg protein moisture ect then deliver it
if the buyer tests it and finds it out of spec there is a system to arbitrate a claim
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- Huntingdon
Not sure how often it is used, I would imagine it would be used if they found the grist wasn’t performing.
best to declare it as it is. I have brought blended gp1&2 and has been minimal difference to full grade gp1 and everyone is in the clear as to what’s being sold.
C B
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- Huntingdon
trouble with a lot of modern gp4 softs is they have hard wheat parentages and are so close in characteristics to hard wheats (similarly the gp4 hards are often bordering on soft with that test) it doesn’t tell you the variety. Only electrophoresis can do that, but it tells you the characteristics of the grain and is a quick easy test to do,
C B
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- Lincolnshire
Depends on varieties, I have contracts showing crusoe/zyatt, I blend to get protein and or bushel correct.
Mixing is just bucket alternating in each heap.
Mixing is just bucket alternating in each heap.
What variety do you declare on your passports @Woldgrain Storage ? Mixed Gp1?
Woldgrain Storage
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It's very rare that we would store a single variety of wheat on its own (only ever done it with Extase and Zircon).
Usually we just declare whichever is the majority variety in the silo, as our software records the splits of each variety. Not much else we can do on a 5,000mt bulk from a dozen or more growers.
Even on a "mixed 1 & 2" contract the mills seem to want a single named variety.