Camas Separator Applications for On-Farm Cleaning

The Camas SV4-8 is the best high-capacity wheat cleaning machine on the market. The SV4-8 can clean up to 1,000 bushels of wheat per hour with better quality and lower reject rates than competing equipment. As a result, one Camas separator can often replace several less efficient cleaning machines. One elevator operator reports that, "this one piece of equipment is doing twice as much production as our former screen cleaner and gravity table combined.

Specific applications of the Camas separator with wheat include:

A. General Cleaning (including garlic):

The Camas separator is unparalleled in the removal of all types of foreign material from wheat including wild oats, wild weed grasses, frost damaged, sprouted, and shrunken kernels, wild garlic and insect damage. In recent tests, the Camas separator removed over 90% of wild garlic bulbs from previously uncleaned wheat. In one test, garlic bulbs per 1,000 grams declined from 289 to 1!!!

B. Deoxynivalenol (Vomitoxin):

The Camas Separator has repeatedly proven its ability to effectively reduce vomitoxin levels in wheat with low reject rates.

In recent operations, vomitoxin was reduced from 2.6 ppm to 1.3 ppm with a reject rate of only 0.5%, and severely contaminated wheat from the 1996 crop was cleaned from approximately 12 ppm to under 4 ppm with a reject rate of only 5%.

C. Quality Control and Sorting Capabilities:

The multi-chamber configuration of the Camas separator provides the farmer with unique capabilities to maintain quality control and sort raw material input streams by important quality characteristics such as protein and test weights. The combined savings from increased product yield and lower operating costs adds up to a significant competitive advantage for owners of the Camas separator, and a quick payback on the machine, usually six to fifteen months!!

D. Weed Seeds & Grasses:

The Camas separator has proven its ability in the removal of weed seeds and grasses. The Camas separator can remove offensive grasses such as jointed goatgrass, cheatgrass and morning glory seed with a much lower reject of good product than traditional equipment.