Damaged beans at the elevator

Reid1650 · Jan 6, 2011

What do they do at the elevator if there is slight damage? Dock you or turn away the load?

greenbeanman in Kansas · Jan 6, 2011

I don't grow beans but my thoughts would be that it would depend upon the source of the damage. A broken bean can be used a lot differently than a moldy one.

Ron Anderson · Jan 6, 2011

They will probably dock you but at 12-13 a bushel it will still be a decent price.

gregger · Jan 6, 2011

they dock you for -- high moisture - trash - and i beleave splits

Paul from MI · Jan 6, 2011

Never been docked for splits, but of course you will be for foreign matter and high moisture. Never had any moldy ones, but I'm sure they would get docked at best and turned away if bad enough.

bradk · Jan 6, 2011

Define "slight".

Ray · Jan 6, 2011

Docking is mostly a rip off by the eleavator.They dock you for moisture,then mix your beans in with dry ones,dock you for trash when they don't get docked when they sell them.They sometimes mix the trash and cracked beans into feed and sell them again.Dad always got docked on everything he ever took to the local elevator.I started hauling to a bigger
elevator and have never been docked once.

John730D · Jan 6, 2011

The elevators get docked at the terminals also. Loads even get rejected. I haul grain in the winter and see all the tickets and have had loads rejected.

Ray · Jan 6, 2011

There loads are rejected mostly because there trying to pass off there poor quality grain to other elevators.A lot of small elevators don't monitor there grain quality in big bins very well and can easily have thousands of bushels of moldy grain to get rid of.One local elevator that was taken over by provico last year won't accept grain from other elevators anymore.

fixerupper · Jan 6, 2011

Our local elevator has been blamed for over docking for at least the past 40 years, but when they ship out grain there is a federal inspector there at the loading facility taking samples and every car is documented and sealed. When my son worked there he grumbled about the times when a freshly loaded car was rejected so they had to unload it and re-fill with grain that passed. They handle I'm guessing 30-40 million bushels a year and they don't show favoratism to anyone.

The farmers who grumbled about the over-docking were the ones who didn't take care of their farm stored grain, didn't know how to adjust their combines or had just plain weedy beans. Some of these farmers would take their messy grain to some little privately owned elevator that was run by a drinking buddy who would give them a break on their sample. The big elevator won't give them that kind of a break.

We corn/soybean farmers have it good compared to the guys who grow food grade crops. Jim

paul · Jan 6, 2011

Depends on where you haul - there is dockage for too much moisture, that is universal.

There is dockage for too much foriegn material - dirt or pods or stems - but it all depends on where you are hauling, some rarely if ever dock for this, others are fuzzy.

There is dockage for damage - cracked beans. This is very rare unless you are deailing in eatable beans, specialty crop.

--->Paul

Anonymous-0 · Jan 6, 2011

They dock you and then blend them off with good beans and sell them for full price to the next guy

Anonymous-0 · Jan 6, 2011

If they guy running the outside at these elevators is worth a darn he will blend the bad beans with good ones any no one ever knows they were in the load

Reid1650 · Jan 6, 2011

Just a few cracks here and there and a little freeze damage

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