Harvest Sample Program: Get Involved

Get involved in the Harvest Sample Program and receive unofficial grade and quality results at no charge, to help benefit Canadian grain producers and the entire grain value chain.

The Harvest Sample Program is a voluntary program. When you sign up, you’ll receive a Harvest Sample kit annually, that contains envelopes for sending in samples of your crop, at no extra cost to you. For each sample, inspectors provide unofficial grade and quality results at no charge, including:

• Falling Number for wheat and rye
• Vomitoxin (deoxynivalenol or DON) levels for wheat, corn, barley and oats
• Dockage assessment on canola and mustard seed
• Protein content on barley, beans, chickpeas, lentils, oats, peas and wheat
• Oil, protein and chlorophyll content for canola
• Oil and protein content and iodine value for flaxseed
• Oil and protein for mustard seed and soybeans

Quality results provided through the Harvest Sample Program are unofficial because samples aren’t collected by a Canadian Grain Commission inspector.

While unofficial, samples are crucial to help with marketing Canadian grain, evaluating grain grading standards, and conducting research that benefits the entire Canadian grain sector.

The Canadian Grain Commission publishes Grain Harvest Quality Reports based on the information collected from these samples. This then helps marketers promote domestic and international sales of Canadian grain and develop new methods for sampling and analyzing grain that are more precise and efficient.

For more information and to sign up, visit grainscanada.gc.ca/en/grain-quality/harvest-sample/