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Wheat Payments And Protein Content, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia
Wheat Payments And Protein Content, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
In recent years there has been increasing support from within the Australian wheat industry for the principal of wheat growers recieving payment for their grain according to market value.
Individual loads are now tested for quality characteristics such as hectolitre weight, unmillable material and moisture content.
At present, technology is not sufficiently advanced to enable rapid and accurate analysis of individual loads for all important quality factors.
A more practical system of quality assessment would be one based on allowances for various basic measures (such as hectolitre weight, unmillable material and moisture content), variety (to allow for genetic differences in …