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Liberty Grains

We are a 3rd generation family farm in Morrow County, Oregon. We offer soft white, hard white, and hard red winter wheat berries and flours.

Since my grandfather began farming this ground in 1950, we've been raising quality dryland ever since.

07/14/2026

Fresh cut stubble. That means we've kicked off the 2026 harvest! Actually, we started last Wednesday but I've been too occupied to post until now. Yields are pretty good and quality appears decent too. I always think its neat to look into the grain bin while its filling. I do hold my breath though while taking a picture, because the grain dust is thick!

07/02/2026

The combine is out, which means harvest is getting close! We've been working on it for about a week and a half. Just waiting on a few more parts to arrive to call it complete. Pulled the grain wagon and small trucks out today too for some final maintenance.

06/22/2026

A couple weeks ago I posted pictures of Triticale, a hybrid between durum wheat and rye. This week is another hybrid I'm sure few if any of you have heard of - the cross between Jointed Goatgrass and Wheat. Jointed Goatgrass is one of the worst grassy w**ds we contend with in our wheat crop. It doesn't really look like wheat, but it can occasionally cross-pollinate with wheat. In this photo, Jointed Goatgrass is on the left, wheat on the right, and the hybrid is center stage. Not surprisingly I found this hybrid in a w**dy spot of the field. Unlike Triticale, these Goatgrass hybrids are mostly sterile and do not produce viable seed.

06/17/2026

Continuing on the theme of rye, I also sometimes find in our fields some Triticale. Triticale is plant that can be grown for its grain, but in our area is more often grown to make grass hay. So what does Triticale have to do with Rye? Glad you asked. Triticale is, genetically speaking, the result of a cross between durum or emmer wheat with Rye. In this photo wheat is on the left, rye in the middle, and triticale on the right. The triticale really does look like an intermediate hybrid of the two. The triticale I sometimes find though didn't come from natural outcrossing. It almost certainly came from a seed lot or batch of dry fertilizer that was contaminated.

06/16/2026

I have often been asked if we grow rye. The answer is no, but sort of yes. Rye is a winter annual just like the wheat we grow, so it can become a serious w**d in wheat fields (The state of Washington actually classifies rye as a noxious w**d) It's better suited in areas that can rotate effectively with spring and summer crops. We've worked for years to eradicate it from the farm (dormant seed can survive for years in the soil) but there are still a few pockets and field edges we find it. Fortunately the rye is MUCH taller than the wheat, so its easy to see. Normally we pull it, but in this case the heads were likely already making seed so I clipped them into a bucket and removed them from the field.

04/04/2026

The winter wheat is unusually large for this time of year. Not only were we able to get it planted early due to some early fall rains, but the "winter" was so warm that we saw a significant amount of growth at a time when the wheat is usually dormant. Contrast this with the spring wheat that was planted mid-March. These photos were taken about a week ago when the seedlings were just starting to poke out of the ground.

01/18/2026

So far we haven't had much of a winter in terms of cold, though we've had abundant rain. This week we had unusually warm weather so we were able to get into the field to do some maintenance rock picking. We manually pick the rocks and load them into the bucket on our small Case tractor then haul them to rock piles located on field edges throughout the farm. My Grandpa, Dad, and my siblings have picked many hundreds of tons of rocks over the years and have most fields picked over pretty well, but there are always new ones being kicked up by the planter or harrow each season. Small rocks are mostly a hazard to the combine on a poor year, when it's possible scoop them up with the combine header. The big rocks can break implement shanks, or bend a combine header.

12/26/2025

A few random farm photos for the Holidays. The wheat crop is looking quite nice for this time of year, with some decent size going into the winter (glove shown for size comparison). Wintertime also means using lots of this wheat for baking! Pictured are some of the 50 loaves my wife baked for a local Christmas Market this year. Finally, there are always things to be fixed. I recently came into our living room to see my 4 year old son "underneath" his truck, toy wrench in hand, doing some repairs. Hopefully I have a future farm mechanic in the making.

12/02/2025

Crowdsource question here. I'm beginning to phase out poly bags and going to all cloth bags (except for my 48 pound option). I'm needing to make an order of new cloth 15 pound bags. I can order either the ONE drawstring option, or the TWO drawstring bags? Any opinion? Does this even matter? Just thought I'd pitch it out there. Both will be printed like the bag on the right, but the left hand bag is the ONE drawstring option.

Address

61972 Liberty School Road
Ione, OR
97843

Website

http://www.libertygrains.com/

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