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glasshouse
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- lothians
communication? really?
if i get ripped off, that is the end of their business with me. simple.
if i get ripped off, that is the end of their business with me. simple.
How many customers have you got left? 
If you send goods above the contract spec then that's your loss. At least with osr you get bonuses. If you use a central store they will segregate according to quality then blend to meet the spec, adding value to yours if it's a bit under (and diluting someone else's if their is over spec).
If you send goods above the contract spec then that's your loss. At least with osr you get bonuses. If you use a central store they will segregate according to quality then blend to meet the spec, adding value to yours if it's a bit under (and diluting someone else's if their is over spec).
Agree on the sucker probes, but even that can work in your favour, had 5 loads of milling spec rejected last season due to poppy seed heads in the sample, 1 mill was taking it ok, the other rejected 5 in a row ( and they were literally in a row to the weighbridge on a monday morning, that will teach me to help the merchant out on a saturday loading empty lorries ) as the suction probe had been hit by another haulier, they only saw them as they had to go up on the lorry to sample, would have been missed by the suction as the seed heads flow to the side of the lorry on loading, it works both ways.
So basically all this nonsense about central stores being good for us as farmers is only true if you send poor quality stuff in that they can add value to? Send good stuff in and you don't get a bonus do you?How many customers have you got left?
If you send goods above the contract spec then that's your loss. At least with osr you get bonuses. If you use a central store they will segregate according to quality then blend to meet the spec, adding value to yours if it's a bit under (and diluting someone else's if their is over spec).
Oh God. I have opened that can of worms again. Sorry. I'm going to bed. In the morning I will link the whole Central Storage epic thread.
glasshouse
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How many customers have you got left?
If you send goods above the contract spec then that's your loss. At least with osr you get bonuses. If you use a central store they will segregate according to quality then blend to meet the spec, adding value to yours if it's a bit under (and diluting someone else's if their is over spec).
I rarely get done for anything out of spec, but yes i have some merchants i wont deal with , which is fine.
when i was organic, the bulk of my wheat/beans/peas went to southern england, so they had to be right as there was no secondary tip,
although the buyers were generally keen for the stuff and willing to come and go.
see my previous tale about feed barley.
as has been said previously, 80kg wheat should attract bonuses if the system was fair.
How do the irish do it? as they seem to be fairer at everything.
[Sigh] Read these if you must...
http://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/wiltshire-grain-takeover.14350/
http://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/grain-storage.14848/ All 20 pages...
I think the fact that we get no bonus on dry wheat and that some mills/users have a different scale of claims is what gets me. And no this isn't always in my contract as have sent wheat on the same contract which was delivered to different end users and had different claim scales applied to it. really makes me savage. in this case I complained I was compensated on some of the unreasonable claims. Some are very fair others........... Not so much. Also I think its this gradual creeping of standards that a lot of us object to ie wheat was 16 now 14. malting barley now 14.5! and beans no admix and moist combined to 16% just straight 14% moisture. the game is getting harder and we are not rewarded for exceeding spec.
- Location
- Essex
Been hearing a lot of stories about loads going missing, rejections on moisture, quality or ergot to name a few
Anyone had first hand experience of this lately?
Anyone had first hand experience of this lately?
Where did the loads go missing?
- Location
- Essex
I don't know but have heard of a "missing load" picked up leaving the farm on CCTV.
Someone loaded it though. So they can't have checked the lorry out at all!! It won't jump into the lorry on it's own.
- Location
- Mid Lincolnshire,UK
I suppose if you are loading a number of lorries out and a " haulier" phones up and says I'm coming for tomorrow's load later today you wouldn't question it! False documents and plates and it's gone! Need a bit of bare faced cheek though.
What are you saying? A merchant has stolen a load of wheat?
- Location
- Essex
Not from me but apparently there's a lot of chat elsewhere on the subject.
I dont understand how a merchant can send a lorry into a yard and steal a load of wheat without someone knowing.
If grain is being stolen from farms it’s a good argument for a far stricter passport systemSome farms with overhead bins have been happy for drivers to load themselves. I worked on one where we had a central store have 1 dedicated lorry on turnaround. You and I know of a very modern store where they have a similar setup