Approximately 80% of the wheat grown in Oklahoma is stored through a network of grain elevators from which it is either processed, exported, or stored for periods ranging from 6 months to a year on average. Oklahoma State University has been a leader in the development of Integrated Pest Management Systems for stored grains. Food security and biosafety have become important issues during the past decade. OSU's National Institute for Microbial Forensics and Food and Agricultural Biosecurity was created to address these issues.

 

Newsletter & Blogs

• Pest e-Alert (OSU Plant Disease and Insect Advisory)

 

Fact Sheets

• AGEC-223 Practical Wheat Sampling and Hand Seiving Procedures

• AGEC-225 Practical Corn Sampling and Hand Seiving Procedures

• AGEC-228 Practical Sorghum Sampling and Hand Seiving Procedures

• BAE-1102 Aeration Systems for Flat-Bottom Round Bins

• BAE-1103 Aeration System Design for Cone-Bottom Round Bins 

• BAE-1110 Storing Oklahoma Winter Canola

• BAE-1109 Storage and Use of Low Test Weight and Sprouted Wheat

• CR-1726 Grain Bin Entrapment: What if it Happens to You

• CR-1741 Storing Moist Wheat at Commercial Elevators in Oklahoma

• FAPC-121 Process and Facility Sanitation

• L-216 Corn Kernal Damage

• L-215 Soybean Kernal Damage

• L-213 Wheat Kernel Damage

 

Other Resources

• National Institute for Microbial Forensics & Food and Agricultural Biosecurity (NIMFFAB)

• OSU Robert M. Kerr Food & Agricultural Products Center (FAPC)

• OSU Stored Products Research & Education Center (SPREC)

• Purdue University Post Harvest Grain Quality & Stored Product Protection Program