ZON Test

[Grain Buyer]

that's exactly what I said a few posts back.........

 

[PSQ]

that's exactly what I said a few posts back.........

Farmers won't have forgotten a few years back when fertiliser suppliers put the price of AN up a £10 a tonne, to "finance the cost of detonation tests". Those costs were passed straight on to the end user of that fertiliser: farmers.
Why can't we pass on this increased 'quality control' cost to the end user demanding the 'quality control'?
- Or are farmers supposed to 'take it at both ends', and just STFU?

 

[7610 super q]

And we never did get to the bottom of what happens to all those free samples....
Leave it @7610 super q , leave it.

 

[Grain Buyer]

Farmers won't have forgotten a few years back when fertiliser suppliers put the price of AN up a £10 a tonne, to "finance the cost of detonation tests". Those costs were passed straight on to the end user of that fertiliser: farmers.
Why can't we pass on this increased 'quality control' cost to the end user demanding the 'quality control'?
- Or are farmers supposed to 'take it at both ends', and just STFU?

costs are there, whether a buyer is transparent with a fee, or hides it in the price they pay, the cost will always be there. as I also said in a post, sell me 145t and I'll do FREE don and zon. what I'll really do is pay 50p less. then when the farmer tells me I'm 50p shy against the competition, I'll point out he is getting FREE don and zon tests, and the whole thing will just go round and round.

 

[PSQ]

then when the farmer tells me I'm 50p shy against the competition, I'll point out he is getting FREE don and zon tests, and the whole thing will just go round and round.

One miller is apparently bidding £3 over futures for gp2 hard biscuit, while at the same time the whisky industry is buying everything up at £2 over futures for hard feed wheat, no Don or Zon tests required.
Few farmers are willing to risk a claim or a rejection for a 50p premium, so good quality hard biscuit is being hoovered up as fast as it comes to market by the distillers.

 

[Grain Buyer]

One miller is apparently bidding £3 over futures for gp2 hard biscuit, while at the same time the whisky industry is buying everything up at £2 over futures for hard feed wheat, no Don or Zon tests required.
Few farmers are willing to risk a claim or a rejection for a 50p premium, so good quality hard biscuit is being hoovered up as fast as it comes to market by the distillers.

yeah, that sounds pants, who would sell a premium like that, especially as you can make 7 over to another mill.

 

[fudge]

Our Zon figure was 0ppb. It would be interesting to hear other figures. Is this risk real theoretical or imagined?

 

[Woldgrain Storage]

There will be wheat out there with higher levels of ZON, the mills are fulfilling their responsibility to their customers by trying to keep it out of the supply chain.

There are legal limits for mycotoxins entering food and feed.

A product recall is the worst nightmare of every food manufacturer and retailer. They all have due diligence procedures in place to help prevent product recalls, which can cost millions upon millions. Part of this is testing at all stages of the supply chain, which now increasingly includes growers.

 

[franklin]

My zon was 62.
Don on the same wheat was 300 on intake into shed in August. Tested for the mill at 450.

Risk assessment score was 13.