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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.

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.

11/28/2025

It's Black Friday, so why not a sale from Liberty Grains too? Use the code GIVETHANKS for 10% off any regular order now through Sunday!

11/09/2025

My 4 year old son wanted a bulldozer ride. On the farm I can grant requests like that, so we took a short spin on the old D5B Caterpillar. It was our family's main tractor from about 1991 to 2008. We still keep it around for occasional use and for the dozer attachment on the front.

10/29/2025

We store most of our grains in smaller bins of our own. However, at harvest we do haul some straight to the the "elevators". While more recently constructed elevators are built entirely out of steel and/or concrete, many older elevators like this one are still in operation. Our local agricultural cooperative operates this facility and it is built almost entirely out of wood covered with galvanized steel sheeting. I believe this particular one was built either just before or after WWII. The amount of wood that went into these structures is impressive. In order to make them strong enough to hold 10's of thousands of bushels of grain, they were made of rough cut lumber stacked horizontally one on top of the other. The reason they're called elevators is because they "elevate" grain dumped by a truck up to the top, at which point the grain is distributed to one of the many different bins. I believe this facility has 20+ separate storage bins within the greater structure.

10/18/2025

Most of the wheat we grow has awns, which are also called "beards". Some varieties do not have awns, like this wheat I grew. The grain isn't different whether awned or awnless, but the appearance can be strikingly different. Awned varieties visually "fill" the field more and wave differently in the wind. From a harvest standpoint I prefer the awned varieties since the beards are actually sticky and help the wheat bunch together and feed into the combine header more evenly. This is especially important if the wheat is thin and short and on a hill slope. Fortunately this awnless wheat was thick and sufficiently tall that is harvested without an issues.

10/09/2025

Wheat is also great for crafts and decorations! My wife and some visiting friends trying there hands at making wheat wreaths. Looks like my 1 year old is contributing by scribbling on a newspaper.

08/06/2025

Haven't posted in awhile because we've been busy with harvest. While teaching my nephew to drive the combine today, I did take a few moments to take this short video from the combine deck. It starts looking into the bulk tank where clean grain is coming up after its run through the threshing system. We were going about 4.5 miles per hour in this field.

07/16/2025

We're cutting wheat! A view from the cab with my combine buddy (he's been eagerly anticipating his first combine ride of the season). Seems to be yielding "ok" despite the fact that we had no rain for the last 45 days of the growing season. Deeper soil areas have well filled kernels, but shallow areas have a lot of thins.

Address

61972 Liberty School Road
Ione, OR
97843

Website

http://www.libertygrains.com/

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