What was wrong with it?
 

A few months ago I bought up a few bags of grain for sealing in mylar, but I couldn't do it right away, and the bags sat in my living room for a month. All the sacks were plastic or woven plasticized fiber except the corn, which was in paper. I went to load the buckets and yep, the the corn was buggy. So I take the bag across the street and dump it in the empty lot; I figure the crows will enjoy it. It's been three weeks, and not single bird has touched it.

What was wrong with it, besides the bugs, which the birds should have seen as food anyway? I feel like I dodged a bullet, somehow, but I want to know why.

Re: What was wrong with it?
 

I've heard of livestock avoiding GM corn like it was drain cleaner.

Maybe that's the case here.

Re: What was wrong with it?
 

No, nice and dry. No moldy odor.

Well, it was feed corn, so I'm sure it was GM. But given that most of the feed corn in the US is too, and that almost all livestock is fed on it, that seems too pat an answer.

Re: What was wrong with it?
 

Which is why I qualified my statement with "I heard". I have no personal experience in these matters. Just throwing it out there.

Re: What was wrong with it?
 

Whole corn is hard for smaller birds to deal with.....they will if nothing else is around. Let it get wet and sprout and you'll see them pigging out on it. Crows will go down a row of planted corn that has come up a couple inches, pull the sprout up and eat the corn/root sprout off the end and leave the top green part laying.

Raccoon, deer, bear, turkeys will eat it, assuming you have them close by. Buddy of mine is an engineer on CSX railroad here, and they have been hauling trainload after trainload of shelled corn from up North to down south ( he runs from Southwest VA to Spartenburg, SC ), I assume to ship overseas from Savanah or Charleston, and they lose some of it along the rail tracks from the hopper cars leaking.....he says the tracks are lined with critters out there pigging out on it.