Insect Control in Seed Storage: What Works (and What Doesn't)
Keith explains how Green Cover manages insects in their seed storage bins without relying on chemicals. Learn what methods work, what they've considered, and why keeping seed moving is the best defense against storage pests.
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0:03 [Music]
0:09 Question here from Tucker says what do you use for insect control?
0:13 In your large storage units nothing right now we try not to have things in there.
0:22 Too long in on the rare occasions where we do have to carry things over for an
0:29 extended period of time. It is we have talked, actually talked about trying to use diatomaceous earth.
0:35 On a larger scale and it's not necessarily that it's so cost prohibitive.
0:40 It's just going to be labor intensive to try to figure out how to get that evenly distributed.
0:45 I don't know how effective it would be to just go up on top of the bin and sprinkle a bunch in and have it work.
0:58 Once in a while we will have to fumigate a bin with lost toxin.
1:06 Or individual totes if we see some insects in there, but that's kind of a last resort type.
1:13 Thing. Sometimes we can re-clean the seed and blow those out.
1:18 Thankfully we've had very few issues with insects in long-term storage. We try to do a really good job of keeping things clean and keeping things moved and not holding things over for extended periods of time, although it does happen. We just try to limit how much it happens.