A better grain storage method/concept?

wildcrafter

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A better grain storage method/concept?

02-22-2012, 09:17 AM

Here's some current research on hermetic bags for grain storage. In this case, the lack of oxygen inhibited the weevils from utilizing water, and the weevils died from thirst.

Hermetic bags save African crop, but not how experts once thought

http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/research/2012/120221MurdockPICS.html

The hermetic grain storage bags that cut off oxygen to weevils and have saved West and Central African farmers hundreds of millions of dollars by putting the brakes on the insects' rapid multiplication don't merely suffocate them as once thought, a Purdue University study shows.
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02-25-2012, 02:05 PM

Hermetically sealing would be fine for malt, which is no longer alive, but long term storage of barley would suffocate the embryo as well as the weevils (if the lack of water didn't get them first), so it would not malt after a fairly short storage period. A maltster would probably have a better idea ofhow long barley could survive under these conditions.

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