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Purdue
University Post-Harvest Grain Quality & Stored Product Protection
Program
Where
"Quality Grain is Job#1!" Includes:
- Research Projects
and Reports
- Extension Projects
and Reports
- Post-Harvest Education
and Research Center
- Extension
Publications, both those that can be ordered along with
many that are available on-line
- An excellent and
exhaustive list of links to Web sites about Stored Products,
such as other university sites, equipment, government, seed
companies, pest management companies, on-line journals, and
national organizations
- S.L.A.M.
= Sanitation, Loading, Aeration, and Monitoring, to maximize
grain quality during storage
CSIRO
(Australia) Stored Products and Structural Pests Program
Includes
- Past and present
research projects
- Strategic plan for
the Stored Grain Research Laboratory
- "Stored Grain Australia,"
the newsletter for the Stored Grain Research Laboratory
- Australian Post-Harvest
Technical Conference from August 2000, with downloadable abstracts
Grain
Marketing and Production Research Center
Located in Manhattan, KS. Web site includes links to the multiple
units at the Center:
- Grain Quality
and Structure Research Unit
- Biological Research
- Engineering Research
- Plant Science
and Entomology
- Wind Erosion
Also includes progress
reports, the quarterly newsletter "Research Kernels," and description
of the 2001 International Wheat Quality Conference.
USDA-ARS
Methyl Bromide Research.
Includes a description of the issues surrounding methyl bromide,
the role of USDA, research on methyl bromide alternatives, and their
newsletter "Methyl Bromide Alternatives."
Post-Harvest
Handling of Crops at
the University of Minnesota. Includes:
- Timely topics (such
as identity preservation of genetically engineered grain)
- On-going programs
- On-line Extension
publications
- A home-study course
- Down-loadable software
Canadian
Grain Storage.
Includes:
- Summary of Methods
to Control Stored-Grain Insects and Moulds
- Principle Storage
Insect Pests
- CanStore: A Computer
Program to Assist in Stored-Grain Management
- Canstore on the Web
(Online Version of CanStore)
- Phosphine Corrosion
Calculator Download
- Downloadable publications
- Images (including
insects, mites, molds or with a Canadian accent that would be
moulds, and storage facilities, equipment, etc.)
- Videos
- Reference Databases
Central
Science Laboratory
in the United Kingdom. Includes:
- Descriptions of research
programs
- Laboratory services
(plant diagnostics, water testing, pesticide residues)
- Research programs,
such as biological control of insect pests, peanut allergies,
genetically modified organisms, drug and pesticide residues, environmental
contaminants
- Additional links,
including Pesticide usage survey of England and Wales, and pesticide
risks to vertebrate wildlife
Department
of Stored Products,
Vocani Institute, Israel. Includes:
- Description of the
ecosystem of stored grain
- Research updates on
multiple new techniques of storing products, such as use of vacuum
and hermetic sealing
- Research updates on
different structures for storing commodities, such as bunker silos
and "Volcani cubes"
- Methods of storing
multiple commodities, such as cocoa beans, coffee beans, flower
bulbs, and dates
- Links to international
cooperators
Postharvest
and Bioregulation Research Unit
of USDA-ARS in Gainesville, Florida
GrainNet,
News & Information for the Grain, Milling, Feed & Seed Industries.
Includes:
- News affecting the
grain industry
- Supplier News and
New Products
- Directories of products
and services
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