Anecdotal and I'd love to be wrong about this, buuuut I'm in the rural midwest rn and all of the wheat fields in like a 75 mile radius from me look like they're absolutely fucked.
It's basically all turned gold already which is super early for it, especially because it's still short as fuck, like maybe a foot tall — it's usually still green until it's like 4 feet tall. The people who've lived here for a long time have been talking about how abnormal it is. I'm not a wheat scientist and haven't really gotten into with anyone who knows what they're actually talking about so I don't totally know what it means, but I know it doesn't mean anything good
Prob a good idea to stock up on food if you've got the means
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just eat the pests, or pick them out if you're really too squeamish
it's not like they devour the entire bag of dry beans. I've had beans/lentils/flour for 3 years that only had maybe 5 tiny gnats in the entire bag. I promise you won't care about that if that bag of wheat actually becomes important.
Weevils, flour beetles, moths, etc will get out and infest your whole pantry / food stock if you aren't diligent. Eating a couple weevils / picking them out isn't too bad. Decontaminating hundreds of beetles from a food storage location is just the pits.