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Idaho / Oregon | If you want an official sample the standard practice is to pay a licensed grain inspector to sample for you. In your case this would be Kansas Grain Inspection service. They have written rules for what is or is not acceptable in regards to probing methods (probes, pelicans, etc), but they also cost money to have come out and pull samples with. Your average shuttle loader / terminal will have them on site much more often because they are grading trains on the outbound side.
As far as submit samples which is what your feedlot is doing, theres not really a "standard" per say. Generally, the industry considers probing the front and back hoppers as the accepted standard but I dont think its a written rule anywhere. If the feedlot is simply pulling one sample from the first hopper, my request as the customer would be to have them pull at least one more so you have some sort of an average. | |
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Are there standard practices that have to be done to obtain a gradable grain sample?
