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Information for producers

Growing your grain

• Variety designation lists

Drying and storing your grain

• Grain drying
• Managing the quality of stored grain
• Moisture testing

Delivering and selling your grain

Before you deliver

• Crops protected by security
• Deductions for handling your grain
• How to manage the risk of not being paid
• Infested, contaminated and out-of-condition grain
• List of licensees
• Nonregistered varieties
• Payment protection information
• Take the assessing your risk quiz!
• Variety designation lists

When you deliver to a licensed primary elevator

• Accuracy of devices (Measurement Canada)
• Delivery contracts that are not honoured by licensees
• Getting receipts, checking the sampling, and negotiating grades
• Payment protection information
• Rules about shrinkage
• Subject to inspector's grade and dockage
• Taking a representative sample
• Tariffs

Grading your grain

• Grading factors
• Grading tolerances for fusarium-damaged grain and DON feeding guidelines
• Grain grades and standards
• Grain Standards Committees
• How grain grades change
• Inspector Training
• Moisture Testing
• Official Grain Grading Guide
• Sampling Systems Handbook and Approval Guide
• Subject to Inspector's Grade and Dockage
• Taking a representative sample
• Test weight conversion charts

Getting paid for your grain

• Crops protected by security
• Delivery contracts that are not honoured by licensees
• How to Manage the Risk of Not Being Paid
• List of licensees
• Payment protection information
• Take the assessing your risk quiz!
• Variety designation lists

Shipping your grain

• The CGC and producer cars
• Producer car loading facilities
• Producer car loading facilities exempted from licensing
• Producer cars

Disputes and problems

• Assistant Commissioners
• Grain Appeal Tribunal
• Reinspection Requests
  • Official Sample Reinspection I-70A
  • Reinspection Record I-70B
• Subject to Inspector's Grade and Dockage

Quality of your crop

• Crop quality and export quality reports
• Fusarium head blight in western Canada
• Get grading results on your harvest sample
• Grain inspection services
• Grain weighing services
• Harvest Sample program
• Request for services
• Submitted sample services at Prairie Service Centres

Calculators

• Estimating moisture content for high moisture samples
• Weight loss due to drying

The Law, grain standards and grain handling

• Canada Grain Act
• Canada Grain Regulations
• Grain Standards Committees
• Orders of the Canadian Grain Commission
• Memoranda of the CGC (Trade memos)

Fact sheets

• Facts for farmers series

Events

• Agricultural shows
• Visitors and tours

CGC accountability and performance

• Department performance report
• Disclosure of contracts
• Disclosure of travel and hospitality expenses
• Report on plans and priorities

Contact us

• Agricultural shows
• Assistant Commissioners
• Contacts
• If you're in Winnipeg, call the CGC about a tour.