Had to harvest 2000 bu corn to give a landlord access early to another field. Bins were quite not ready and did not want to contaminate them with this GMO corn and it was wet enough I was a little scared of air drying it. It was 25% M and the local mill offered 3.05 minus 30 cents which I thought was fair. Then my main merchandiser called back and said bring it here which we did. $3.74 contract and they sent me a check for $4100. I called u p and ask what F??? Oh, we made an accounting mistake, you should have not been charged the drying charge, only the shrinkage charge. I said, the drying charge is half the shrinkage charge, I will swap you for that! No answer, that is not company policy. What is fair and what is going on? What would be a fair price for this wet corn? I didn't want to send it and knew what would happen but I did, it did, and worse. No wonder the American farmer is so sceptical. Ed Winkle |