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£150 feed wheat feb
£150 feed wheat feb
We have had merchants tell us we can't sell Siskin as a hard group 4 since technically it's a group 2. I argued that it's still a hard wheat just slightly better quality but all I got was "but it's a group so you can't sell it as a group 4"!Sold 5 loads of Siskin Group 4 hard wheat for March £155.50t
StrangeWe have had merchants tell us we can't sell Siskin as a hard group 4 since technically it's a group 2. I argued that it's still a hard wheat just slightly better quality but all I got was "but it's a group so you can't sell it as a group 4"!
Maybe different standards in CaliforniaStrange
Sell them mixed wheat to their specification? I do that. All my varieties go in one heap.We have had merchants tell us we can't sell Siskin as a hard group 4 since technically it's a group 2. I argued that it's still a hard wheat just slightly better quality but all I got was "but it's a group so you can't sell it as a group 4"!
Speaking to merchants who have left trade thats what happens with malting barley anywaySell them mixed wheat to their specification? I do that. All my varieties go in one heap.
Malting barley has a habit of being downgraded to feed on the weigh bridge, but still magically gets tipped in the malting intake.Speaking to merchants who have left trade thats what happens with malting barley anyway
We have had merchants tell us we can't sell Siskin as a hard group 4 since technically it's a group 2. I argued that it's still a hard wheat just slightly better quality but all I got was "but it's a group so you can't sell it as a group 4"!
Malting barley has a habit of being downgraded to feed on the weigh bridge, but still magically gets tipped in the malting intake.
i.e. It fails the quality test on intake, but is often"close enough to blend away" with some better loads to plump up the bulk ?
Somehow I doubt many are surprised by this...
There's nothing you can do if the sample isn't up to spec, and a lot of samples will naturally be borderline.And what do you do about it? Bend over and take their word for it? Send your retained samples off for independent testing or at the very least demand a retest, as per your rights in the contract? You'd be amazed at how many loads test better the second time!
We don't mention it now. We avoided the merchants who had a problem with it that year and just sold to others who weren't worried. Now we just decribe the wheat as "mixed hard gp4" (the other being genuine gp4 hard wheats such as Costello and Gleam) and don't mention the Siskin. Don't have any problems. Though sometimes the premium for it round here is hardly worth the hassle.Does that matter? What market is it going to? If it's a specific milling quality then faur enough - the miller might be looking for a lower protein grist for a specific flour and will blend away better grain with Gp 4. I always put on the passport what we've agreed, not what variety I choose to load from my silo of bended Gp 2s and hard Gp 4s as long as it meets the minimum spec.
We are the same. It was just that particular year there were 2 merchants (young reps, I wonder if they even knew exactly what the difference (or lack of) between gps2 and 4 was). Now we just don't mention it. Like you say as long as it has the right spec and a hard endosperm it shouldn't matter. Although there is still one merchant who likes us to write Costello (of which it is about 35%) on the passport!Sell them mixed wheat to their specification? I do that. All my varieties go in one heap.
Back in the day, when I used to deliver biscuit wheat, it always became Consort or Claire when it got to the mills.We are the same. It was just that particular year there were 2 merchants (young reps, I wonder if they even knew exactly what the difference (or lack of) between gps2 and 4 was). Now we just don't mention it. Like you say as long as it has the right spec and a hard endosperm it shouldn't matter. Although there is still one merchant who likes us to write Costello (of which it is about 35%) on the passport!
Sell them mixed wheat to their specification? I do that. All my varieties go in one heap.
Yes a bit. I will know how much after I have the last sold load go on TuesdayHave you any wheat left?
Yes a bit. I will know how much after I have the last sold load go on Tuesday