Posted by Fixerupper on May 27, 2011 at 09:08:14 from (207.199.205.239):
In Reply to: Well I'll be darned. posted by flying belgian on May 27, 2011 at 08:02:36:
And we Iowa farmers whine about a small amount of FM dockage on our corn and beans. We don't grow food crops so we have it pretty darned good.
I never realized wheat buyers were so picky until I was involved with harvesting it. After my load was probed at the elevator I was sometimes sent away to another dealer because of protein content. Made for quite a delay in getting back to the field, and the temperature was only 105 and the truck was not air conditioned. One of the guys we cut for only wanted low protein wheat because he sold it to a place that made it into glue. I guess the high protein stuff doen't make good glue.
Another customer never bought new seed so his wheat had lost it's resistance to smut. The elevator manager chewed on me and tried to make me look like an evil person because he had to find a separate bin for it. He even spit out his tobacco plug before he started in on me. Smutty wheat can't be used for food because it has a fishy smell.
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