Ruddenklau Farms

Ruddenklau Farms Welcome to our farm! We are a family farm located in Oregon's bountiful Willamette Valley.

09/02/2026

Video of the green bean field from a couple of days ago. We are about a week or so from harvest now?

Our green beans are about a week from harvest, and we are happily eating them every day! We may as well enjoy them. I ra...
09/02/2026

Our green beans are about a week from harvest, and we are happily eating them every day! We may as well enjoy them. I ran the numbers on them the other day, and it would take quite a spectacular yield to cover ALL expenses. That would include things like land and equipment payments, all personal and living expenses etc. We should be able to cover direct crop expenses and other general farm overheads without a problem, but how much of the other expenses will be covered will depend on the yield. At least we get to enjoy great beans for a week or two :) I'll post a little video too, but Facebook does not allow me to post videos and pictures at the same time on the farm account!

08/31/2026

Irrigating hazelnut trees with a linear.

08/30/2026

Putting fuel in the big linear on one of the farms we rent.

Many farmers rent land. Land is expensive to buy, so when you can rent, the theory is you can spread that expense over more acres. Also, not a lot of land gets sold. A lot of families are holding onto the family land. They don't want to farm, but they are also not ready to sell it. That can be for nostalgic reasons, or they like to stay living in the country, or it's considered a good long term investment. It can also be because of Capital Gains taxes. If they sold the land, they would loose a lot of the value to taxes.

In this case our landlord is a farmer, who has been farming part of the ground himself till just a couple of years ago. He also does a lot of the irrigation work for us, which is built into the cost of the rental. It works well for us, as this farm is 13 miles away from our home place.

08/29/2026

This 'should' be the last irrigation before the beans are harvested late next week/early the following week. They have received about an inch of water every week since they were planted back in late June. Next week we are supposed to get upwards of an inch of rainfall, so that should finish them out.

I'll put a photo in the comments from the pond. It is getting really low, and the screen on the intake pipe (suction pipe) is partially out of the water. Bruce has been a bit worried all summer as the pond never filled completely due to our dry spring. In the back you can see the landlord's cattle. They love acting like water buffalo in the summer.

I spent part of the morning at the annual meeting of the hazelnut bargaining association and part of the afternoon helpi...
08/27/2026

I spent part of the morning at the annual meeting of the hazelnut bargaining association and part of the afternoon helping make sure we will have some more nuts to sell in a few years.

I was driving through the field of young hazelnuts looking for active vole holes, and spreading a small handful of pellets whenever I found some. So far we seem to have avoided much vole damage, but I did see a few holes right at the base of a few of the trees, which worries me.

Well now, two baths in one year!Bruce didn't get a chance to wash the combine last fall. He did blow it clean, but it d...
08/26/2026

Well now, two baths in one year!

Bruce didn't get a chance to wash the combine last fall. He did blow it clean, but it didn't get washed till this spring.

This year, combining wrapped up early as we have no late season combined crops. So the machine got blown clean yesterday - poor Bruce was FILTHY when he came in. Today there was time to get the bath done. All I had to do was run the telehand for a few minutes, so Bruce could reach the auger and the top of the cab. We have plenty of nice, warm days left, so the combine will be nice and dry before it is parked away for the winter.

Another job checked off the list.

I gave Bruce a ride to a different farm, so he could bring home the tractor and mower. It gave me a chance to see the be...
08/24/2026

I gave Bruce a ride to a different farm, so he could bring home the tractor and mower. It gave me a chance to see the beans on that farm. They look amazing and are bursting with blooms. I was a little surprised to see a bunch of bees out there. Not sure if they can get anything from a bean flower? Picked a few more beans for the next couple of days. We don't need too many as it's just Bruce and I now.

I helped Bruce put a new battery in the linear radio transmitter this afternoon. I was happy to have the job of running ...
08/23/2026

I helped Bruce put a new battery in the linear radio transmitter this afternoon. I was happy to have the job of running the telehand!

It's a bit of a pain having to hook up the trailer, load the telehand, chain it down, unload it, have two people in the field to do the job, and then do it all in reverse. All to replace a single battery.

Bruce used to climb up the machine and precariously balance against the triangular frame, but I'm glad he has wisely decided against doing that anymore.

The first beans of the year, delivered in that universal 'container' a farmer always has available 😂😂😂
08/23/2026

The first beans of the year, delivered in that universal 'container' a farmer always has available 😂😂😂

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12500 SW Salt Creek Road
Amity, OR
97101

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+15039320558

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