What I plan to do this spring is after the wheat harvest when the grain elevator's have had time to dry the wheat to about 11% moisture, I'm going to go buy a couple of thousand pound's. just have them run it out in the back of my pick-up then scoop shovel it into barrel's in my basement. The dried grain cost a little more per bushel than out of the field.
I alway's get mixed up on the amount of pound's that make a bushel but I think it's 60 pound's of wheat per bushel. Then they factor in the moisture too. So say dried wheat is 7 dollar's a bushel you can do the math on how much you can store. 35 buck's put's up alot of bread. I may do the same thing with rice this fall.
So even if you live in the city, it may be worth a drive out to the country if you can locate your closest grain buyer's.
I alway's get mixed up on the amount of pound's that make a bushel but I think it's 60 pound's of wheat per bushel. Then they factor in the moisture too. So say dried wheat is 7 dollar's a bushel you can do the math on how much you can store. 35 buck's put's up alot of bread. I may do the same thing with rice this fall.
So even if you live in the city, it may be worth a drive out to the country if you can locate your closest grain buyer's.
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Fri, April 25, 2008 - 11:57 AMI'm going to start canning grain in quart jars since I don't have space to put a large storage barrel in the shed. I think I can manage to get the pre-sterilized jars hot enough in my solar oven on warm days. We shall see.
Also, Walton Feed, out of Idaho, sells grains in bulk at really good prices. They're online. -
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Fri, April 25, 2008 - 7:41 PMArent oat's supposed to store forever? That's something you can buy a feed store by the bag full. I'm not sure of the nutritional value of oat's. It would be a good filler.
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Fri, April 25, 2008 - 12:11 PMThere are videos on youtube about the proper way of storing grain in 5 gallon buckets and bigger barrels. check them out they are from P.A.W. Productions(the ones I saw anyway. P.A.W. stands for post apocalyptic world.
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Mon, April 28, 2008 - 2:02 PMIt's called 'beer'.
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Mon, April 28, 2008 - 5:04 PMAnd Malicous from the 3 point line.....................NOTHING BUT NET!!!!!!!!!!!
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Mon, April 28, 2008 - 9:48 PMREVOLUTIONARY INFO OF THE DAY:
Okay...here's the 'it' of long-term grain storage....
Take your five gallon poly bucket with a sealable lid. Line it with a plastic bag, as thick of a bag as you can get, like those 2 or 3 mil 'highway trash' garbage collecting bags (trim to fit). Fill it with grain to about an inch from the top of the bucket. Set a chunk of DRY ICE on top of the grain, LEAVE THE BAG OPEN.... the CO2 will seep down into the bucket, heavier than air it will displace ALL oxygen from the grain, from the bottom up...once the dry ice is all melted, and the fog is all the way to the top of the grain, carefully (so as not to disturb the CO2 cloud) close the bag (you shoulda left enough plastic on top to twist it shut), and tie it shut with a wire twist-tie. Seal the lid on the bucket. No oxygen, whatsoever at all. No air, no moisture. No need for dessicants. No chance for any biological metabolism to occur.
This will tripple or sometimes quadruple the effective shelf life of 'traditionally' deep-storage prepped beans, rice, wheat, barley, name your grain. No more five-and-ten year rotations... keep it till you eat it!
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Mon, April 28, 2008 - 10:40 PMI store grain in 5 gallon tubs, with dry ice . . . supposedly lasts 8-10 years -
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Tue, April 29, 2008 - 10:02 AMI was just reading that you should use mylar bags instead of plastic, mylar is impermeable and plsatic is not -
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Tue, April 29, 2008 - 9:55 PMMakes a lot of sense, mike. I just don't know where to get a mylar bag that would fit a five gallon bucket the right way.
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