Want food raised the way you want it? Here's how.

[kstaven]

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That is just too funny to see this. Please don't take that statement the wrong way, but a grain farmer in Washington made this exact comment on a Dairy forum I belong to and he was overrun with requests within two days. He had to come back to the forum begging people not to call him making requests.

 

[seedcorn]

I don't take it the wrong way but email me and I'll line up any size farmer (from 30 acres to 5000 acres) that will grow whatever you want, however you want it grown as long as you are willing to pay what his costs are and margins. $1/LB for wheat, corn, or soybeans, I'll have farmers killing each other for the contracts........

Send me the farmers address in WA, we'll take his over load.

The challenge for you that want your grains grown a certain way is there. You decide how you want it, pay for it, IT WILL BE DONE. We are here to please.

 

[Cetawin]

Great idea but doubtful....look what the government does already...

1. Pay farmers NOT to grow crops
2. Exporting the corn being used to make this new ethanol junk and which could be used to make bio-fuels
3. Pays to import resources we already have here but are too busy exporting to use

 

[seedcorn]

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No problem w/government. Tell us what you want and how you want it grown, we'll put costs to it, margins and as long as anyone is willing to pay for it.......they get what they pay for.

I'll have farmers lined up willing to do this. Just don't ask for just a bushel of wheat grown with hand cultivation. Growing 1 bushel of wheat w/hand cultivation would be fairly expensive--in fact I'd tell ANYONE how to do it rather than buy it.

 

[Rosalind]

Seriously? Let me ask around and see if I can get the fancy-shmancy grinder I want from Amazon.com.

How would this grain come, as whole grain? Hulled, threshed, how much processing?

I'd seriously love to have some organically grown einkorn or emmer. I think it would be a lot more than $1/lb though.

 

[seedcorn]

There is an old griss mill north of me that may have access to whatever you want...........Let me know, I'll check for you. they imported the stone from alabama and set it up.

Again, if all you want is a bushel, why not grow it yourself? Cheaper and you would KNOW how it was handled.

 

[seedcorn]

Rosalind, checked those are 2 wheat varieties that have to be grown in the upper Central parts of USA.....in other words can't grow in Indiana. It's a spring wheat, we have to grow winter wheats.

Understand the variety einkorn but emmer? What are you going to do w/it since it's not a good bread wheat and not any better than current wheat varieties on protein?

 

[chickenannie]

seedcorn, what's the name of your grain co-op. I'd like to tell my sister in Indiana about it. She's been looking for one.

 

[seedcorn]

No grain co-op. It's just I know farmers that will grow whatever you want if we can grow it in Indiana--notice how I put a big "IF" in there now. From article, people went together to pay farmers to grow what they wanted. Good idea that most farmers would welcome as long as they can make some money to pay their bills and the consumers buy enough to grow it--ie, not just 1 bushel.

 

[Rosalind]

What are you going to do w/it since it's not a good bread wheat and not any better than current wheat varieties on protein?

It's an aesthetic thing, really: it's used in certain traditional recipes for a particular kind of Swiss bread (which my Pennsylvania Dutch ancestors made) and cooked whole in some Italian recipes for stew/soup. The lower protein content gives it a different texture from rice, so that when you cook it in broth it has a sort of smooth yet bouncy texture that you don't get with rice or pearled barley.

Edited to add: Yeah, I should really grow my own. Just didn't have the time to rototill *one more freakin' garden bed*, yanno?​