storability

Historians believe they were first grown in Central America, five millennia BCE, and thanks to their versatility and long-term storability, they spread widely throughout the continent.

Slate Articles Sara Dickerman 2011

Wheat's long term storability and nutrition makes it a common find in most doomer's pantries but since most of us don't want to pound it with a stick or grind it between two stones a good quality grain mill such as the heavy duty Diamant Grain Mill or the more modest but highly rated Country Living Grain Mill is a must.

Ontario Blogs Feed 2009

Historians believe they were first grown in Central America, five millennia BCE, and thanks to their versatility and long-term storability, they spread widely throughout the continent.

LewRockwell.com 2009

A bargain, maybe, so perhaps both storability and savings point to why this my own grandmother used to horde cans of Green Giant in our cellar right next to the fallout shelter.

Elissa Altman: The Joy of Fall's First Greens 2008

Genetic modification technology may contribute to food security goals through increasing crop yields, producing hardier crop varieties that can withstand heat and drought, enhancing nutritional and medicinal value, and improving storability (UN Millennium Project 2005b).

Opportunities and risks of genetically modified crops in Africa 2007

Its intermittency, its lack of storability and its lack of transportability.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2005

In terms of the energy ladder, coal represents an upward movement in terms of efficiency and storability.

Chapter 8 2000

The only important examples of processing in cereals in order to improve storability are treatments involving heat and moisture like the preparation of bulgur from wheat in Arab countries or the widespread parboiling of rice which is particularly frequent in Asia.

10. Integrated pest management 1996

Advantages of parboiling include reduced insect attack, less breakage during milling, improved retention of nutrients and vitamins and an overall improvement of storability.

10. Integrated pest management 1996

The section on building the bank (practical) discusses how to select the crops to be collected, timing the collection, the collection strategy once you are in the field, documentation, seed cleaning and drying, seed storage, collection grow-outs and a table indicating whether a seed is self - or cross-pollinated and its relative storability index.

12: Seeds and germplasm 1996