Missouri organic crop producers vary greatly in what they produce and in the quantities they produce, from commercial size operations with production ranging from 500-1500 acres to small farmers producing less than twenty-five. Typically, vegetable and fruit producers farm even smaller tracts of less than one acre up to twenty-five acres.
Not only is there a variation in size of operations in Missouri; but, also, in the types of crops produced...
- vegetables and fruits
- food and feed-grade soybeans
- hard red winter wheat
- yellow dent corn for livestock feed
- blue and white corn for organic tortilla chips
- spelt
- popcorn
- sunflowers
- oats
- hay
- specialty crops:dry edible black beans, white food-grade milo, flax, and other small organic grains.
Most fruit and vegetable producers sell directly to consumers, retail stores or restaurants. Grain farmers sell to the wholesale market. The organic grain farmer does not have the option of selling their products to the local elevator. Most organic grain farmers sell their products wholesale bulk through brokers or directly to grain processors. They must negotiate their own selling price. Therefore, it is important farmers network with several marketing resources to receive fair market value for their products.
The following list is not comprehensive for organic grain markets.The Missouri Organic Association does not endorse or take responsibility for the services provided by any of the processors and/or brokers listed.
All Star Trading Inc.
1480 Renaissance Drive, Suite 402
Park Ridge, IL 60068
Phone 847-375-8675
Fax 847-375-8813
ted@allstartrading.com
Grain Millers, Inc.
Roger Mortenson
Cabriole Center, Suite 400
Eden Prairie, MN 20929
847-328-5188
Heartland Organic Foods
RR 2, Box 37, Rosholt, SD 57260
(605) 537-4220
Kansas Organic Producers Association
Lakeview Farms
Larry Shrock, Owner
44200 Highway BB
Middletown, MO 63359
573-549-2231
SK Foods International
Ronald Schlecht, Representative
4666 Amber Valley Parkway
Fargo, ND 58104 USA
701-356-4106 (TEL) • 701-356-4102 (FAX)
SunOpta Grains & Food Group
Earthwise - Minnesota
4111 30th Ave S
Moorhead MN 56560
218-287-5510
1-877-287-5510
Sunrich - Minnesota
PO Box 128
Hope MN 56046
507-451-4724
1-800-342-6976
Super Soy LLC
N3503 State Road 104
Brodhead, WI 53520
608-897-2114
Thayer Feed and Seed
Britton White, Manager
101 E. Neosho Ave.
Thayer, KS 66776
620-839-5256
West Plains Grain Inc.
2809 S. 160th St.; Ste 309
Omaha. NE 68130
308-638-4433