CEREAL BUY
OVOTEK purchases grain and rapeseed all year round.
OVOTEK Sp. z o.o. purchases grain and rapeseed all year round. The purchased cereals include: wheat, barley, rye, triticale and corn. These cereals must be species pure, so they must not contain admixtures of other cereals. Customers who decide to sell their grain and seeds should first obtain a statement approved by the District Veterinarian about meeting the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 183/2005 on feed hygiene. With such a declaration, customers deliver their grain and rapeseed to the company, where a free trial is taken by trained staff for testing. The tests are carried out in the company's laboratory, where cereals and rapeseed are subjected to organoleptic and physicochemical evaluation. The exact quality requirements are presented in Table 1 and Table 2.
Quality requirements for cereal grains
The grain should not have any type of contamination:
- other cereals
- alien seeds
- broken grains
- live or dead pests
- humidity 14.5% (grain with humidity up to 18% is allowed
- with the quickest possible use of the dryer)
- with the quickest possible use of the dryer)
- ergot 0.08%
Quality requirements for rapeseed
The grain should not have any type of contamination:
- other cereals
- alien seeds
- broken grains
- live or dead pests
- humidity 9% (grain with humidity up to 10% is allowed
- with the quickest possible use of the dryer)
- total pollution 2% (tolerance of 4.5%)