Adding Value
To Your Crop
• Grading Seed For Optimum Yields
• Removing Disease
• Separating Foreign Material
Boosting Yield Through Seed Optimization
Using an AGS Grain Separator to clean and sort wheat seed will increase yield significantly. The left side of the red line, planted with high-quality seed collected from the 2nd fraction shows better germination, vigor, and uniformity. Farmers can increase germination rates by selecting the best and highest test weight seed before planting. This leads to higher yields, faster maturity, improved disease resistance, and greater profits. Key benefits of using the AG Grain Separator include:
• Up to 98% uniform germination
• Crop maturity to a week earlier
• Healthier crops with better disease resistance
• Yield increases of up to 40%
Investing in grain cleaning and separating equipment ensures the highest quality seed is used, maximizing yields, and minimizing waste. Quit fertilizing and farming seeds that won't produce a decent yield.
Removing Disease Increases Quality
Quality standards for grain cleaning depend on its intended use. Harmful toxins like fusarium, ergot, vomitoxin and aflatoxin are mainly found in the chaff and damaged seeds, which can double every month in damp storage. Removing these contaminants lowers infection rates, while airflow during cleaning helps dry high-moisture crops.
Cleaning tests with popcorn and spelt were conducted and the results tested by a certified lab. The popcorn was infested with a vomitoxin level of 11.2 which is unusually high. The spelt tested at 1.5 vomitoxin. After one pass through a WS Grain Cleaner, the popcorn tested at 1.8 and the spelt tested at 0.7. This increases the value of the crop. As an example, in a recent year a 10,000 bushel wheat crop having a 7 ppm vomitoxin level was valued within a range of $3.00 to $3.50; (10,000 X $3.25 = $32,500). This is something to frown about.
If the crop is processed through an AGS Grain Separator or a WS Grain Cleaner, the VOM level can be reduced to below 2 ppm. This increased the market value of the cleaned wheat to $6.50 to $7.00 per bushel. Considering an average 10% (5 to 15%) of the grain (cracks, splits, thin and light malnourished seeds) was removed, and taking the average price offered, the results would be: (9,000 X $6.75 = $60,750). Added profit by removing disease = $28,250. This is something to smile about.
Cleaning Grain Adds Value
Cleaning foreign material out of a crop before selling it will reduce dockage. No one wants to pay for trash in grain. Cleaning out foreign material before selling will avoid being price docked. This can be disappointing when the price you are paid for your hard work is lowered because your crop was dirty.
Ways To Add Value To Your Grain Crop
• Grade Seed To Optimize Yield
• Remove Disease
• Clean Grain
Investment Has A Short Payback
The Return On Investment (ROI) for purchasing an AGS Grain Separator or a WS Grain Cleaner is short and breakeven can sometimes be reached after only a few hours of use!
It is easy to increase the value of your crop such as one farmer did in Saskatchewan. In 2016, he had 6,000 bushels of wheat that was contaminated with a high level of Fusarium fungus. It was rated as a grade 3 grain which was unfit for food or feed. The most that he was offered was $2.50/bu. Since the fungus consumes the inner part of the kernel, the thins, the lights, the cracks, and the fines are the most susceptible to disease infection. After cleaning the grain with a WS machine, the infected part of the grain was removed. The crop was then upgraded to a grade 1 with an offer for the wheat at $6.60/bu. This price difference was $4.10 per bushel. Considering that an average 10% of the crop was removed as rubbish, this amounted to an added value to his crop of over $22,000. His Breakeven Point on the cost of the machine was reached after just a few hours of use.