Grain
 

I know grain is a handy thing to have in your food storage, I know it is a lot more expensive when a lot of you folks get it than it is for me to pick up locally.
I actually trade work for wheat, and for corn I go and pick up at the local mill for what ever the bushel price is plus a little extra for the 50 pound bag and their time to crack it and bag it. (cracked is for animal feed, but whole corn could be bought as it last much longer if not cracked)
I know that it adds money to the end product the more hands it goes through, and if some one dumps it in a 5 dollar bucket, but I am thinking that their has to be some way to get this grain out in an economical way. A friend of mine runs a feed mill, he bags feed all the time, sells bulk feed by the truck load, and by the 50 pound bag.
I know that a lot of you are scattered all over the world and not close to here, but all I am doing is talking out loud I guess, but if some one has a good idea let me know how we can get wheat and corn out economically to people.
Here in the rural parts of america they start coops which is short for cooperatives, where people all have a stake in the project, but I honestly dont know how that works.
I was kind of thinking if a person got 6 or 7 thousand pounds bagged up in 50 pound bags tossed them in a trailer and had a meet point where people could stop in and pick up what they wanted.
I do not know, but some of you people may know.
just tossing out ideas.:confused_ma:

Christ in a chicken basket!! I just hate to think of some one going hungry when I see so much grain left in the fields and spilt and never picked up off the ground.
any ideas?

Re: Grain
 

Packaging and shipping plus each set of hands making a profit do add cost. And coops rock.

Right now people can get grain at reasonable prices, but if it gets really tight, a GIM coop might be a great idea. (Like everything, you can also find some grain at ridiculously high prices.)

I paid extra on wheat and oats to get it in those big #10 cans because of the pest protection provided and the savings of my time and energy repacking to keep out bugs and rodents. But my corn I got in 50lb bags and repacked, whole, meal, and grits.

My wife does not like the whole feed corn, but I do like it cooked with beans. (It takes as long as pinto beans to get tender.) For a side dish the fancy freeze dried sweet corn tastes better. But either one beats going hungry.