Corn sources?

[barfife]

Looking for a source of corn to put up in 5 gal buckets. The normal places that I get grain from locally (Georgia) have no corn (other than organic popcorn) and haven't been able to get quality corn in over 3 years.

Anyone purchasing animal feed corn to store for human consumption? Any advice on do's or don't's? Additional washing, etc?

Some of you must have coffee, I would really miss cornbread and grits!

[Matt In Oklahoma]

I put up regular grits. I only have a small amount of corn, i got popcorn from Sams.

[barfife]

I put up regular grits. I only have a small amount of corn, i got popcorn from Sams.

Guess I could grind grits to make cornmeal!!

My grain source can get Organic popcorn is 50 lb bags.

[610Alpha]

Watch the Survival Report vids on LTS. They talk about feed wheat vs human wheat...the short of it ain't no difference in the wheat just how many times its been sent through the cleaning machine to get rid of dirt clods, chaff, stems, and everything but the wheat. Same applies for Corn.

The thing you have to watch for is to make sure it isn't SEED corn, this will usually have a pink coloring to it. Its coated with either pesticides, fungicides, or some other ide.

I think i have a vid of me putting up 50 lbs of FEED Wheat I got from the local grain mill. $6.75 for 50 pounds is darn cheap!! I'll clean it myself.

[crossbow]

Looking for a source of corn to put up in 5 gal buckets. The normal places that I get grain from locally (Georgia) have no corn (other than organic popcorn) and haven't been able to get quality corn in over 3 years.

Anyone purchasing animal feed corn to store for human consumption? Any advice on do's or don't's? Additional washing, etc?

Some of you must have coffee, I would really miss cornbread and grits!

In a couple months, your local farmers will be harvesting yellow dent corn or you can go to your local feed store and buy in by the 50 pound bag cheap.

[kappydell]

i store both wheat and corn from feed stores. Different places carry different things. I ask for triple cleaned wheat. The immigrants that work at that co-op tell me they use the feed wheat for eating all the time and that the only difference they have noted is the size of the kernels. The 'people wheat' was graded higher due to larger size. Cleaning was good on what I bought, but I would not mind cleaning before use at all, since the price was so superbly l-o-w. Ditto for corn, excepty I specified untreated feed corn and did not dare tell them I was going to eat it or they would not have sold it to me. Deer corn is sold loose. Squirrel corn is on the cob yet, so shelling becomes an issue, but it is edible if all you want is a little. I have made cornmeal and hominy from this corn and it was very tasty. The only thing I purchase direct from the farmer is soybeans. Feed places roast them, which extends storage, but reduces usefulness. They also like to crack them. Too limiting for my use, so when I see the farmers harvesting their fields, I approach them with several 5-gal pails and several $20 bills. They like folding money same as anyone. Then I dry them in dehydrator to make sure they are dried to suit, then bag and freeze (f0or varmints). They keep about a year unless canned or frozen.

[goatlady]

Maybe not important to you, but those soybeans you are buying, in the field or in the bag, are GM beans. Unless you buy from a certified organic soy bean farm all other soy beans are GM. It's the first crop Monsanto genetically modified. Also all feed corn is untreated - no one feeds treated corn to their animals, bad for the animals and costs more to boot. Corn that IS treated is sold as "seed" corn.

[1Admin]

And "treated" corn will be almost a pinkish color. When wet it will stain your hands with the pink coloring also.