I would go to another feed store. This one tried to take advantage of your wife. Ground feed will not store as long as cracked but we are talking months difference not days. Clean dry shelled corn will store for years if kept at the same moisture. Cracked or ground corn will usually store for six months or so with out any issues. As far as nutritional value it would not change much either.
Many feed stores and feed salesman try to gimmick their way into higher sales. They know many people that have livestock today did not grow up around livestock. So the customer has little real world experience with feed issues. One local feed store had a whole bunch of horse people buying "special" horse feed a few years ago. All it was is rolled corn and oats with a lot of molasses added to it. They actually where using low test weight corn in the feed but they knew that with the amount of molasses they where adding that the horses would eat it and would still gain weight. What they really where getting away with was selling a $150 per ton feed for over $300. They had suckered my SIL in with it. I sent it into Iowa state for a feed anallise it did match the label as far as nutritional value. I also sent a sample of some I made rolling oats and high test weight corn plus molasses. The sample I made was several point higher in protein and fiber both. I figured market cost on the corn, oats, and molasses. The feed store was doubling their money.
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