Posts Tagged ‘flour’
Kansas Organic Farmer’s Profitable Operation Bypasses Traditional Market System Entirely
by Roger Blobaum Bennie Unruh of Aulne, Kansas, is an organic farmer who has developed health food market outlets for all his grain and beef and bypasses the traditional marketing system entirely. In additional to producing grain and cattle on a farm that has been in his family since 1872, he has been a registered…
Read MoreOrganic Farmer in Northwest Minnesota Is Operating One of the Nation’s Largest On-Farm Milling Setups
by Roger Blobaum Ray Juhl is one Midwest farmer who sees production of organically grown grain and stone-milled flour as an emerging agricultural industry with strong demand and unusual growth potential. He’s so certain of this that he has built and equipped one of the nation’s largest on-farm milling setups. It is located on the…
Read MoreRestored Water-Powered Roller Mill in Minnesota Enables Grain Farmers to Reach National Markets for Organic Flour 1972-1975
By Roger Blobaum The search for more markets for buckwheat and other grains, a continuing challenge to organic farmers in the Midwest, is being met by a group of producers near Winona in southeast Minnesota. They purchased the Stockton roller mill, a water-powered landmark shut down three years ago when the miller retired, and surprised…
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