Noyes and Kenkel say technology transfer of this type is very important to Oklahoma and to the agricultural industry. A particularly noteworthy benefit to cereal grain marketability is that there are no detectable chemical residues associated with CLF systems when managed properly. If you don't put phosphine pellets directly in the product, there is not even an ash residue. Even if you do and an ash residue is present, the amount is a very, very minute percent of the total mass. Noyes says OSU's efforts in working with concepts designed to reduce chemical residues in food should be something in which everyone involved can take pride.
Cereal grains are an important part of our food supply.
Most people eat them every morning for breakfast, as well as in baked goods, breads, pasta, and a great many things. Nor are the OSU's stored grain specialists standing pat on past or current successes. The Stored Grain Group has submitted a proposal with the Pesticide Impact Assessment Program to develop a means of releasing phosphine outside bins into a specially designed transportable unit, which then can be trucked from one grain elevator to another. This has a lot of potential. Liquid phosphine can be used with regulated systems to trickle phosphine at much lower rates than is possible currently, and this can be done in bins that are not tlly sealed and still do an effective job.