[Real Old Man]

Tractor supply feed corn to extend your food 🥝 supply

 

[Echo47]

Could be beneficial, but it's important to recognize that not all corn is made the same. The corn made to feed animals may not be edible to humans. It's (generally) more tough & difficult to digest. Might be useful to make corn meal, if it works for your needs.

 

[Real Old Man]

Was thinking of grinding it into corn 🌽 meal

 

[Kauboy]

Could be beneficial, but it's important to recognize that not all corn is made the same. The corn made to feed animals may not be edible to humans. It's (generally) more tough & difficult to digest. Might be useful to make corn meal, if it works for your needs.

Whole kernel corn isn't digestible anyways. We can't digest cellulose fiber.
The difference between cob corn and feed corn is the actual type and also the process for harvesting.
Cob corn you buy at the store and can eat straight is harvested early. Feed corn, or "field corn" is left on the stalk to dry out, and is used in dry ground goods like meal, chips, and feed.
If your plan is to pulverize and make corn meal out of it, it's probably fine. But due to the length of extra time it's left to dry on the stalk, and the different variant, it will never taste good whole.
It should go without saying, but I'll say it anyways... clean your food.

 

[Echo47]

Whole kernel corn isn't digestible anyways. We can't digest cellulose fiber.
The difference between cob corn and feed corn is the actual type and also the process for harvesting.
Cob corn you buy at the store and can eat straight is harvested early. Feed corn, or "field corn" is left on the stalk to dry out, and is used in dry ground goods like meal, chips, and feed.
If your plan is to pulverize and make corn meal out of it, it's probably fine. But due to the length of extra time it's left to dry on the stalk, and the different variant, it will never taste good whole.
It should go without saying, but I'll say it anyways... clean your food.

This makes me think of how to make a powered mill to grind grain. Not only corn but all grains. It'd be mighty helpful to a homestead.

 

[NMPRN]

I've made a whole lot of whisky out of feed corn (back in my drinking days) but unless I was on a really tight budget it wouldn't be something I'd add to my stored food.

 

[Real Old Man]

50 pound bag at tractor supply is under $20 with a grinder from Walmart at under $30. Might be worth a try

 

[Kauboy]

50 pound bag at tractor supply is under $20 with a grinder from Walmart at under $30. Might be worth a try

I will openly admit that I have whole red wheat stored up that came directly from a feed store in brown paper bags.

If you go through with it, let us know the results.

 

[Real Old Man]

Might start out with 5 pounds and see where it leads

 

[Spenser]

Instead of going out and buying this to make 'corn' meal, something that I have not heard done for human consumption, try collecting Acorns, then soaking the toxins out to make Acorn meal. Pretty much the same idea, just that I have heard of and even tried acorn bread, your route I haven't heard of, and having accidently eaten feed corn, I prefer going the acorn route.

either way, curious of the outcome


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[NMPRN]

...a grinder from Walmart at under $30. Might be worth a try

I did a little window shopping on walmart and amazon for grinders in the $50'ish range and below. Lot's of options that look like they'd be worth a try.

...just FYI, LDS red wheat is almost as cheap as Tractor Supply feed corn if you want flour to go with your corn meal.

 

[Real Old Man]

I ain't real sure I know how to bake bread.. corn 🌽 bread 🥪 is unleavened so it's not as hard to make

 

[Spenser]

I ain't real sure I know how to bake bread.. c

Actually, what the Indian's called bread I think we call Nan or Tandoori bread, and although those two are a leavened bread, it is actually really simple to make, compared to a loaf of bread. Simply :acorn flour, water, yeast, mix, let sit to rise a tad, roll to form pancakes, cook on a pan, viola supper is served. (or make the equivalent of Aloo Paratha, which is in essence stuffed Nan/Tandoori bread w/potatoes, cilantro, cumin, Granam marsala, onion).


Or you could purchase a Breadman bread maker.

 

[Real Old Man]

You clearly missed the point of my last post. I can make corn bread. I'm not going to trudge thru the woods to collect Pounds of acorns to make a bread I've no idea if my family will eat

 

[NMPRN]

I live in NM, ...what's an acorn?

 

[Real Old Man]

It's a nut 🔩 that grows on oak tree 🌴

 

[NMPRN]

I was being a wiseguy, we don't have a lot of Oaks in NM.

 

[AndyFrank]

Its not sweet or the highest quality, its just "field corn" but it is fine.
Thing is, somehow field corn gets mold easier? More spores end up on it because its not washed

 

[Kauboy]

This thread had me eyeing the $13 40lb. bags of whole corn at Atwoods yesterday.

 

[Annie]

I did a little window shopping on walmart and amazon for grinders in the $50'ish range and below. Lot's of options that look like they'd be worth a try.

...just FYI, LDS red wheat is almost as cheap as Tractor Supply feed corn if you want flour to go with your corn meal.

That sounds like a much more viable solution. LDS red wheat will last 30 years and comes packed in a #10 can. I heard you can boil the wheat if grinding for whatever reason, isn't feasible.