Mount Vernon Northwestern Washington Research and Extension Center

Vegetable Research and Extension

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Small Scale Grain Equipment

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Planting

Strickland Bros. Enterprises, Inc. (seeder)
P.O. Box 536 / 3622 Wiggins Road
Spring Hope, NC 27886
(252) 478-3058
Sales@stricklandbros.com
stricklandbros.com/greenscapelinkone.html (older web page that shows better pictures)

Truax Company, Inc. (grass drill)
4300 Quebec Avenue North, New Hope, MN 55428
(763) 537-6639
truax@pclink.com
http://truaxcomp.com/grassdrill.html

Harvesting

Ferrari – Tractors C.I.E.
PO Box 1045, Gridley, CA 95948
(530) 846-6401; cell (530) 632-4384
www.ferrari-tractors.com/smallscale.htm

Panersar Agriculture Industries (PAI) – India; mission is to mfg low-cost, high-quality ag implements with low maintenance cost so that they are within reach of a small farmer. Best Self Combine Harvester, Tractor Driven Combine, Straw Combine, Hadhambha, Trolly, Harrow & Seed Drills and many more agriculture products.

Threshing

Ferrari – Tractors C.I.E.. Good resource about grain-related equipment.

Small-scale food processing - A guide for appropriate equipment. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Sorghum seed-threshing bicycle. Video and description of cooperative project that created a simple human-powered threshing machine that appears to be more than twice as fast as indigenous sorghum threshing in sub-Saharan Africa.

Wintersteiger. Have smaller scale laboratory models of equipment as well as large, commercial scale
USA Distributor: WINTERSTEIGER Inc.,
4705 Amelia Earhart Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84116-2876
(801) 355-6550;
mailbox@wintersteiger.com

Cleaning

Clipper Office Tester (Clipper Separation Technologies)

Ferrari – Tractors C.I.E.

Drying

Small Scale Grain Dryer Plans by Jack Lazor, Butterworks Farm

Resources

Northern Grain Growers Association. New Vermont region nonprofit comprised of grain growers, bakers, researchers, and agronomic specialists from University of Vermont. Website in process.

Small-Scale Grain Raising: An Organic Guide to Growing, Processing, and Using Nutritious Whole Grains for Home Gardeners and Local Farmers by Gene Logsdon, 2008.

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