Harvesting Oats

RBnSC · May 30, 2009

Started harvesting oats this week Got about 500 bushels and it started to rain put the gravity wagons under a cousins shed for a few days then carried one to the mill. They say that there were weevils in the sample and turned down the whole load. I Don't know what we will do now.
Ron

IaGary · May 30, 2009

Fumigate the wagon and then take it to the mill.

Ask them at the mill which insecticide to use.

Happens all the time up here in the midwest with bins full of corn.

Semi's full of corn get rejected. They throw a fumigant under the tarp, leave it set over nite and take it back the next day.

Gary

john in la · May 30, 2009

While I am not naïve to modern farming or processing practices it is still GROSS to think we are eating fumigated weevils everyday.

I guess that is better than thinking about the rat pieces in my tuna sandwich.

armand tatro · May 30, 2009

I would think that as the grain moves thru the fanning mills at the prossesing center all that small stuff would end up on the floor. I know that when we shelled corn a lot of FM ended up on the ground under the sheller and went back to the field. Also I was around fanning mills when we got seed beans, oats, and other seeds ready for planting and this cleaning was crude compared to the cleaning that goes on at the prossesing mills. Armand

fixerupper · May 30, 2009

The fanning mill should take out most of the dead weevels. The weevels that weren't cleaned out are just added protein. HeHe!Jim

J.C.in AZ. · May 30, 2009

What do you think those little black things in your corn flakes are?

Kruse · May 30, 2009

Correct you are, but there is "foreign matter" in all the food we eat.

If you have some time, check out the government allowable standards to see how much foreign matter (insect parts) are in a bar of chocolate.

Sometimes you just have to grin and bare it.

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