I have a lot of hard corn and enough pickling lime to process it in addition to the other grains mentioned. Is there a problem with this as it was not mentioned?
That's just me. ;)
I’ve been interested in learning about storing and using corn as a prepper commodity for quite a while.
So recently I bought a 50 pound bag of yellow dent corn to experiment with.
I looked it over - it was clean and bug free.
I cleaned it a little more anyway and stored it in sealed mylar bags with oxygen absorbers.
I planned on opening the bags up at various intervals - like 3 months, six months, etc. - to see if they were still good.
When I opened the first bag after about 2 months the corn was crawling with bugs. Not just a few either - it looked like there were hundreds and hundreds - maybe thousands.
I opened the other bags and they were bad too.
The ducks and squirrels loved it.
Other food items, like pasta and rice, we store in the freezer for a while to kill bugs and larve before putting them up for long term storage.
Will that work with corn?
What other things can be done to store corn without it being destroyed by bugs?
I have read about putting diatomacious earth in with the corn. But it seems that would kill the bugs after hatching and I would only end up with a bag of bad corn and dead bugs.
I would appreciate it if anyone here could offer advice and share their experience on how they store corn successfully.