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The Insectomat improves detection of insects at intake, ensures better quality control, prevents infested grain being added to clean stock, as well as minimising pesticide usage and eliminating the need for costly fumigations. Most importantly, pest detection will allow stores, mills and export silos to ensure that they do not accept or supply customers with infested grain.

Quick Facts...

In stored-grain, insects often cause as much loss after harvest as crop pests cause during the growing season.

Insects cause losses by direct feeding damage and also deterioration and contamination of grain.

Six steps to prevent and control insect damage are: keep bins clean and repaired; use residual sprays; store only clean, dry grain; aerate the grain; protect the grain; and inspect the grain regularly.

The profits from producing a crop should not be allowed to waste away in storage. These losses are caused in two ways:

Direct feeding damage results in reductions in weight, nutritional value, germination and market value.

Deterioration and contamination from the presence of Insects results in downgrading of grain and market value due to insect parts, odours, mold and heat damage.
For a more in depth fact sheet on insect damage to farm stored grain, please go to the following link:

http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/insect/05545.html


or download the following fact sheet