The Three Hills and District Seed Cleaning Plant is home to a new piece of high-tech equipment. The Buhler Sortex Z+, or the color-sorter as it's better known, uses fluorescent lighting, and high-resolution cameras to detect, separate and clean grain. On the basis of color, shape, or other optical properties, defective items and foreign materials are identified and separated from the product stream, using a blast of air.
Typical contaminants in grain include, stones, sticks, husk, hulls, ergo
