I've just received a message from support that proves all those players who felt forced into doing the Snow White chain 35 times are totally wrong.
I have the wheat recipe 5 times now and no silo recipe (that's a totally different issue!) and have just been told that due to the "wonderfully designed" random loot system I could still get the wheat recipe many more times.
Thankfully now that saqui (hi saqui) is running the forum I know this will be seen and I'm hoping support have misunderstood my orginal question and this post taken down for being completely innacurate
if this is correct then make the recipes tradable and problem solved!