Whole Grains are wonderfully nutritious and are great keepers holding their nutrition and vitamins until they are broken down in some way. They can be rolled, cracked, milled into flour and only then will the nutrients will begin to oxidize. I have used grains after having them stored for over 8 years in a sealed air-tight container. They seemed as good and fresh as they day I had bought them!
But there is that nagging and scary thought! What if they get buggy? And what do you do if you open your grain container one day and are met in the face with a flying cloud of moths or see small black bettle type critters winding their way thru the grain kernels? Don't despair!

Grains keep very well if kept properly and BUGS in the GRAIN are not a problem that can't be overcome! I have dealt with 1000's of pounds of grain in my grain market and under most conditions it is not a problem. Here we will discuss it and what you need to do IF you are invaded by grain pests.

This is what you see - as if you needed any assurance that bugs may have invaded your grain supply! Remember the large commercial milling companies hire food scientists to run regular testing to make sure their flours and food products made from flours like crackers and snack foods stay under the alloted allowable amount of ground up insect parts! I met such a lady in my country market who had worked for a large famous name cracker company for years and her job was to test the edible prodcuts for insect parts! They are ground up by the thousands in commercial graneries.
That is why I love grinding my own grains! I can see what I am grinding!