Hursh Consulting & Communications Inc.

Hursh Consulting & Communications Inc.

Kevin Hursh on Agriculture: Hursh Comment

  • Home
  • About
  • Biography
  • Contact

Missed delivery deadlines

Posted in Uncategorized by Kevin Hursh
Aug 12 2010

One of the major frustrations for producers at this time of year is crop movement. In many cases, grain that was supposed to be off the farm by the end of July is still taking up bin space. This can apply to CWB grains as well as whole host of other crops. Even when there are contracts to take grain by a certain date, those deadlines are often missed. At their end, buyers can face all sorts of logistical and sales problems, but all too often they seem to over-promise what can be accomplished. Last minute grain movement ends up being another job added to the list of pre-harvest tasks. The crunch comes when harvest is starting before all the promised grain movement has occurred. Having enough bin space isn’t usually a problem early in the harvest season, but undelivered grain might be sitting in specific bins that are earmarked for new crop production. Beyond that, there’s the question of manpower. No one wants to shut down a combine to go clean out bin bottoms. As a result, grain is sometimes consolidated from flat bottom bins into hopper bottom bins at this time of year so that loading trucks will be less labour intensive. It seems that you never have too much bin space and you never have too many hopper bottom bins. I’m Kevin Hursh.

Latest Tweets

Tweets by @KevinHursh1
Follow Kevin Hursh on Twitter

Ag Resources

  • AgriBiz Communications
  • Agriculture Canada Drought Watch
  • Canadian Cherry Producers
  • Canadian Grain Commission
  • Canadian Western Agribition
  • Canaryseed Development Commission of Saskatchewan
  • Crop Production Week
  • Farm Credit Canada
  • Inland Terminal Association of Canada
  • Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame
  • Saskatchewan Institute of Agrologists
  • Saskatchewan Ministry of Agriculture
  • Saskatchewan Mustard Development Commission
  • The Western Producer
  • US Department of Agriculture
  • Weather Office
  • Western Beef Development

Calendar

August 2010
S M T W T F S
1234567
891011121314
15161718192021
22232425262728
293031  
« Jul   Sep »
Powered by WordPress | “Blend” from Spectacu.la WP Themes Club