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Grain Farm

Also known as: row-crop farm, field-crop farm

A farm whose primary production is grain — wheat, oats, barley, rye, corn, rice, sorghum, millet, buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa — or grain-adjacent field crops like dry beans and oilseeds. Grain is the calorie base of human civilization and the most industrialized crop category in modern agriculture. Small-scale grain farms in the directory are doing recovery work: rebuilding regional milling, restoring heritage cultivars, closing local feed loops.

A grain farm produces the staple crops that feed populations. [[directory|The directory]]‘s grain-farm entries skew toward heritage-grain operations, regional millers’ suppliers, and farms restoring small-scale grain economies in places where commodity grain consolidation eliminated the infrastructure decades ago.

What the directory tracks here

Wheat (hard red, soft white, durum, einkorn, emmer, spelt), oats, barley, rye, corn (field corn, dent corn, flint corn, [[sweet-corn|sweet corn]] when the operation is field-scale), rice, [[sorghum|sorghum]], millet, buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa, teff, dry beans (kidney, black, pinto, navy, heirloom varieties), oilseeds (sunflower, flax, canola, safflower, sesame).

[[sweet-corn|Sweet corn]] grown as a CSA or stand crop is usually classified under [[vegetable-farm]]; field corn and grain corn live here.

See also

Auto-generated from this entry’s typed relations: frontmatter, grouped by relation type so the editorial signal isn’t flattened.

  • Instance of: [[farm]]
  • Contrasts with: [[industrial-agriculture]]
  • Instances: [[bear-grains-tiny-store]] · [[drunken-goats-farm]] · [[ellis-farms]] · [[family-cow-farmstand]] · [[georges-mill-farm-store]] · [[last-stand-farm]] · [[mauro-farms-market-bakery]] · [[south-milford-grain-elevator]] · [[valhalla-farms-wellness]]

What links here, and how

Inbound connections from across the wiki, grouped by lens and by relationship. These appear automatically — every entity page declares what it links to, and that data populates here on the targets.

Practical

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instance of

  • Bear Grains Tiny Store OSM shop=farm reclassified to grain-farm by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
  • Drunken goats farm OSM shop=farm reclassified to grain-farm by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
  • Ellis Farms sorghum cane processed on-farm into molasses — 75+ year family tradition
  • Family Cow Farmstand OSM shop=farm reclassified to grain-farm by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
  • Georges Mill Farm Store OSM shop=farm reclassified to grain-farm by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
  • Last Stand Farm OSM shop=farm reclassified to grain-farm by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
  • Mauro Farms Market & Bakery OSM shop=farm reclassified to grain-farm by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
  • South Milford Grain Elevator OSM shop=farm reclassified to grain-farm by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations
  • Valhalla Farms Wellness OSM shop=farm reclassified to grain-farm by name/tag signal; secondaries appear as also-grows relations

contains

  • Farm wheat, oats, corn, rice, and other staples

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