Grain Employees Can
Get Inspection License
Grain Warehousemen and
elevator operators will be in
terested in a new U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture (USDA)
publication explaining how they
can have their employees
licensed to obtain samples for
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official grain inspection.
The pamphlet, “Ware
housemen’s Sample-Lot
Inspection Service: (Questions
and Answers” (AMS-555), ex
plains how the service operates;
how responsibilities for the
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service are shared by the grain
industry and by USDA’s
Agricultural Marketing Service
(AMS), how to obtain the ser
vice, how much it costs; and its
advantages, as well as some
possible drawbacks.
One advantage, the booklet
points out, is that the sampling
may be more accurate and more
timely and, therefore, more
useful. The samples are obtained
by using mechanical samplers at
the time of loading. In many
instances, inspection results will
be known before the grain is
shipped. Using the service can
also reduce inspection and
transportation cost and delays in
shipment. Grain can be shipped
directly to domestic buyers
without holdovers for inspection.
The service is administered by
the AMS Grain Division, under
the U.S. Grain Standards Act. It
is sometimes called the “yellow
certificate” service because a
yellow certificate is issued when
an inspection is based on a
warehouseman’s sample.
Single free copies of AMS-555
are available from the in
formation Division Agricultural
Marketing Service, U.S.
Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D.C. 20250. Don’t
forget to use your zip code when
ordering
Canadians
Slap Limits
On Exports
Canadian Trade Minister
Alastair Gillespie announced last
week that Canada was imposing
controls on exports of soybeans,
flax, rapeseed, cottonseed and
linseed oils.
He said the action is necessary
“in view of the uncertainty”
arising from a U.S. embargo on
■ exports of soybeans, cottonseeds
and their byproducts announced
on Wednesday.
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Kan. Wheat
Crop Called
Biggest Ever
The 1973 Kansas wheat harvest
reached the half-way point this
weekend with general agreement
the crop would reach or even
surpass a predicted record of 374
million bushels.
With a little over 175 million
bushels harvested, it was not
clear whether the protein count
would be equal to some past
years. New estimates of the size
and quality of the crop were due
this week.
Ray Hancock, head of the
Kansas Crop and Livestock
Reporting Service’s statistical
division, said it now looks like the
374 million bushel estimate “was
right on the target.”
Some sources predict the next
estimate will exceed the 374
million bushels. Up to 50 bushel
per acre yields have been
reported in some areas.
The protein count has been
reported at around 12, but
traditionally higher quality
wheat of northern and northwest
Kansas may increase the count
as harvesting moves north next
week.
Most grain elevators are
handling the crush at the halfway
point, Hancock said, although
elevator space and rail car
worries are greater this year due
to the larger volume of wheat.
A spot check of farmers, co-op
managers, elevator operators
and others, however, indicated
that talk of various shortages
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early in the harvest involved
more talk than shortage.
Unquestionably, there have
been frequent - and locally
painful - shortages of combines,
fuel to run combines, rail cars,
elevator space and manpower,
especially in Sumner, Reno,
Barber and Kingman counties.
But there were no reports of the
harvest being halted by shor
tages.
At the same time, the shor
tages, or the talk of shortages,
were a factor in triggering ex
treme price fluctuations at the
trading centers. The export price
of wheat has varied by as much
as 30 cents in the space of one
day, compared with a spread in
more normal years of three to
four cents.
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