Who do you sell your grain to?

[Steevo]

As above. Hopefully the poll choices should cover the majority.

 

[Baz65]

Grainlink

 

[D14]

More and more requests to sell direct to other farmers. People are fed up with the trade and whole RT thing.

 

[Against_the_grain]

Use Graindex quite a bit as well

 

[teslacoils]

Does graindex cover non assured?

 

[Secret Agronomist]

Grainco

 

[7610 super q]

The peasants are revolting.

 

[holmes65]

Sell a lot to local feed mill. Has to be RT but no deductions if its 0.5 percent over on moisture. Also no £8 per load weighbridge charge.

 

[yellow belly]

a point about selling to
if it is through a coop then it is sold by them on behalf of the farmer through a member pool system with the coop acting as agent and not owning the grain in principle

 

[carbonfibre farmer]

Some under seed contact, take all thats grown on area planted, Local feed mill for rest.

 

[teslacoils]

I resent paying a weighbridge charge at a mill owned by a merchant, when it's come out of a central store into a merchants own lorry and over a store weighbridge. Tin hat on. It's £8 or so. But over 50 loads it's £££ I'd rather have tbh.

 

[texelburger]

Sell to Frontier, Openfield and a local merchant.If any dont offer a market in the future for non RT wheat i wont deal with them.Thats if we don't see major changes in the future.

 

[Heathland]

Saxon,it normally takes my malting barley, but unfortunately not this year,due to it being very marginal,and not wanting to take a risk.

 

[Zippy768]

I resent paying a weighbridge charge at a mill owned by a merchant, when it's come out of a central store into a merchants own lorry and over a store weighbridge. Tin hat on. It's £8 or so. But over 50 loads it's £££ I'd rather have tbh.

So you take it to a central store and they charge you weighbridge when merchant takes it out?

 

[teslacoils]

So you take it to a central store and they charge you weighbridge when merchant takes it out?

No. The merchant charges weighbridge when it gets to the mill. Can't see why, as it goes on merchants own lorry, and is weighed on weighbridge as it leaves store where merchant has a sizeable tonnage. As the lorry leaves sheeted, exactly what's going to happen? I can't see why they would even bother to weigh or sample at at intake when it's been weighed and sampled 45 mins ago when it left the store. Still, what do I know.

 

[Steevo]

No. The merchant charges weighbridge when it gets to the mill. Can't see why, as it goes on merchants own lorry, and is weighed on weighbridge as it leaves store where merchant has a sizeable tonnage. As the lorry leaves sheeted, exactly what's going to happen? I can't see why they would even bother to weigh or sample at at intake when it's been weighed and sampled 45 mins ago when it left the store. Still, what do I know.

Be interesting to know how the two weights would compare......

 

[teslacoils]

Be interesting to know how the two weights would compare......

For all I know they may not even weigh it again. But it's on the bill. End user should accept Cs sample and weight. Then I could have my £8 and they could have quicker turnarounds.

 

[Steevo]

For all I know they may not even weigh it again. But it's on the bill. End user should accept Cs sample and weight. Then I could have my £8 and they could have quicker turnarounds.

I take it you pay weighbridge charges in the way into store also? and it's sampled then?

For some reason therefore, since your grain after that stage has been mixed in a big heap with someone elses......I assumed that any sampling done after that would irrelevant.

After all, it's very unlikely much the grain you produced is actually on that lorry going to the mill.....that the mill are sampling.

 

[teslacoils]

I take it you pay weighbridge charges in the way into store also? and it's sampled then?

For some reason therefore, since your grain after that stage has been mixed in a big heap with someone elses......I assumed that any sampling done after that would irrelevant.

After all, it's very unlikely much the grain you produced is actually on that lorry going to the mill.....that the mill are sampling.

My grain goes in. It's sampled in. It's segragated. I get a list of what I've got.

Then I sell say 29ish t of 74/180 softs.

Lorry turns up. Gets loaded with c29t of 74/180 soft from the 74/180 bin. Lorry is samples and weighed. So lorry was weighed empty and full, and sampled to check it met spec. Lorry then goes 20 miles down the road, weighed in, sampled, weighed out again.

It's worse with feed grain as it's potentially a national merchant lorry delivering to a national merchant mill. Lorries leave sheeted. What do they think has happened - driver takes two suitcases of lead with him so they can claim 50kg lighter when he gets out for a Ginsters?

Not a lot of money. I just resent the idea. Mill never makes a claim Vs the store. £8 a load. Scale it up to 3,000 loads a year. And what a waste of time.

 

[Steevo]

My grain goes in. It's sampled in. It's segragated. I get a list of what I've got.

Then I sell say 29ish t of 74/180 softs.

Lorry turns up. Gets loaded with c29t of 74/180 soft from the 74/180 bin. Lorry is samples and weighed. So lorry was weighed empty and full, and sampled to check it met spec. Lorry then goes 20 miles down the road, weighed in, sampled, weighed out again.

It's worse with feed grain as it's potentially a national merchant lorry delivering to a national merchant mill. Lorries leave sheeted. What do they think has happened - driver takes two suitcases of lead with him so they can claim 50kg lighter when he gets out for a Ginsters?

Not a lot of money. I just resent the idea. Mill never makes a claim Vs the store. £8 a load. Scale it up to 3,000 loads a year. And what a waste of time.

Soon pays for a weighbridge!