What Is The Elevators Cost Of Handling Specialty Grain?
You are proud of what you are harvesting this year. Given all of the challenges, the crop is as good as it can be. You have put a lot of effort in it, and those specialty traits will yield a few extra cents per bushel. Whether it is a food grade soybean, high oil corn, a non-GMO grain, or whatever specialty crop you have produced, there will be a few extra pennies per bushel reward for your efforts. Those efforts include segregating it from other similar crops, preserving its identity, and being able to provide the first point of traceability for the ultimate end user. All of that for only a few cents per bushel. Hmmmm, you say. Why not more? How much of a cut is the elevator getting? By the way, what cost does the elevator really have? Aha! The farm gate can help that last question, with quite a bit of reliable research. Here is what we’ve found out… What is really involved from the point of a middleman in the grain handling and merchandising process, with regard to the cost of fussin
