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Re:A DIY M&Ms and Skittles sorting machine by rmason on Sunday February 05, 2017 @10:39PM (#13576321)
Grain elevator contracts contain an allowed foreign material allowance. Farmer's bringing in their grain get docked for any foreign material. Then the elevators add foreign material to the grain as train cars are loaded. It's crazy but that's just how the industry has always worked.
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Re:A DIY M&Ms and Skittles sorting machine by mulmen on Monday February 06, 2017 @01:45AM (#13577106)
Do you have a source for this? What kind of material do they add?
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Re:A DIY M&Ms and Skittles sorting machine by aaron695 on Monday February 06, 2017 @02:33AM (#13577340)
Sounds illegal - https://www.gipsa.usda.gov/fgis/grainhandling.aspx

Except -

"Recombine or add broken corn and broken kernels to whole grain of the same kind, provided, that no dockage or foreign material, including dust, has been added to the broken corn or broken kernels;"

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