How to process wheat right from the elevator?

[Tim K]

Called him. He wasn't very helpful. He has a limited supply, won't do more, won't take a credit card to hold some, and made it a point to tell me he's selling it to the first guy to walk in the door. That's all his business, but it makes it hard to plan.

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Called him. He wasn't very helpful. He has a limited supply, won't do more, won't take a credit card to hold some, and made it a point to tell me he's selling it to the first guy to walk in the door. That's all his business, but it makes it hard to plan.

Im sorry. Ive been buying wheat from him for decades. Before him, i bought clean wheat from a grainery on 85 but they went to system where the wheat is being moved through tubes that are sealed. In one truck out the other, no access for a couple bushells. Buying from him has always been a pleasant experience for me besides the fact that he takes a while to get a couple of bushels bagged.He has always taken care of me. I would stop every couple years when going to denver and tell him I needed a couple bushels, give him a hard time about the beans he had available and tell him I wanted lentils. He would always give me shit back and ask how many tons I wanted. I would pick up my bags when he called. Two years ago was my last purchase from him. I think it was $10 a bushel then (60lb). My guess is it would be about $14 a bushel now for food grade HRWW which would be about .23 a pound. He has always had awesome wheat! I always thought he had unlimited quanities in term of retail. I sure hope hes not stop selling retail. I know hes bagged for people and been no showed more than once. I never would have dreamed he wouldnt commit to providing you wheat with you providing a CC, as I thought his margin was much higher on the bagged. In years past i got the impression he welcomed retail if he could bag it when things were slow. I wonder if the drought has changed things.

Every kernal of wheat that gets ground to flour is food grade. That is mega tons of wheat moving through the system. There has got to be somone who is doing retail at ten or twenty points retail not 300. Have you phoned around? How about Con Agra in Denver?