What Happens Next...

I don't think I have ever taken the time to tell y'all what happens after we get the wheat out of the field...

Once the truck is loaded with wheat, we take it to the Elevators.

 

The truck is then driven onto the scales and weighed and then a sample of the wheat is taken.

 

The truck is weighed because wheat is sold by the bushel and each bushel weighs differently according to the grade of the wheat.  That is why a sample is taken.  Each sample taken is tested for moisture, foreign material(weed seeds),  and quality.

 

The wheat is then dumped from the hopper on the bottom of the truck into a pit where it will be augured into one of the elevators.

 

 

Once the wheat is sold to the elevators, they then will transfer the wheat to rail cars that will haul the grain to processing plants, exported, or mills to be made into flour.

 

So, the next time you bake a cake or eat a sandwich, just think....this could be some of the Jones' wheat!!

 

Amy