- Location
- Lincolnshire
Couldn't you polish them up to 47? You can add a lot of bushel by putting them over a cleaner or taking the dust out.
Spring oats contracts
- Thread starter Jo28
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Couldn't you polish them up to 47? You can add a lot of bushel by putting them over a cleaner or taking the dust out.
Our rotary cleaner would have taken the whole lot out. That was after as much aspiration as we dared to use!
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Crumbs.
sprouted grains, now I think about it
Contracts have sneakily become defaultable last autumn,
previously they did not become so until you priced them.
This is with Openfield at any rate. For that reason alone I declined to sign up a month ago, when I was approached with some "first come first served" contract for harvest 2020.
Now it has been 45mm of rain, I am more confident that I an fulfil the tonnage I apparently agreed last August.
Just the supply chain changing the rules to get the grower to shoulder yet more of the risk I guess.
Should think springers might be even more of a gamble, so perhaps check the small print.
previously they did not become so until you priced them.
This is with Openfield at any rate. For that reason alone I declined to sign up a month ago, when I was approached with some "first come first served" contract for harvest 2020.
Now it has been 45mm of rain, I am more confident that I an fulfil the tonnage I apparently agreed last August.
Just the supply chain changing the rules to get the grower to shoulder yet more of the risk I guess.
Should think springers might be even more of a gamble, so perhaps check the small print.
- Location
- Top of the Chilterns
Same here. Some of my elyann were 36kgs ish. Like loading chaff. 21 tonnes was the record low on a lorry, and that was with plenty of shunting. All made it into turkey rations though, thank goodness!
- Location
- Huntingdon
Is screenings, 6% sprouted would be flat rejection
- Location
- Huntingdon
No ammount of polishing could help a lot of spring oats last year, they were just shite, next to nothing in the kernel.
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
I know a farm trader with a merchant very close to me say I couldn't polish mine from 43kg......
......but we did.
And good thing too as the yield was crap.
- Location
- Huntingdon
Yeah some samples were a mix of decent oats and blinds, which could be cleaned and polished, however some were just light and empty.
Kghl is a stupid measurement of quality for oats anyway, it should be about kernel content and screenings, however for some reason kghl is still used.
Really big fat oats sometimes don't pack well into a bushel weighed and give a poor result despite them being great for milling. Similarly you can get smaller skinny oats that pack well but have shite extraction rates.
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Why not sit down at the AIC with the millers and change it?
- Location
- Huntingdon
A few consumers do it basis as I describe, however it is a very slow test, certainly no good for quick test on intake. In a normal year, with good quality a bushel & screenings test still gives a very good indicator of quality. It is the odd quality years like this last year where kghl is not a good test to truly acertain the suitability of the oat. I had 43kg Elyann oats that had better extraction rates than 47kg Montrose, and were traded accordingly.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I must admit I have never paid much attention to kernel figures, and couldn't tell you what factors influence them.
- Location
- Huntingdon
Some varieties de hull easier, Mascarni being number 1 for de hulling.
They also de hull at different rates so mix varieties cause the miller a lot of hassle as they basically have to run them twice to fully extract.