Grains
Here at Granor Farm, we produce a wide variety of certified organic grains used across the midwest in distilling, brewing, malting, and milling. You can also find them featured in our farm store for use in your own kitchen.
Planting The Seed
We are continuing to expand our offerings of certified organic and transitional, organically-grown grains to a wide range of buyers, including everyone from large processors, distillers, and brewers, to home bakers, millers, and enthusiasts.
To the right you will find a list of our current on-farm inventory and a list of what's ahead for 2023. Please contact [email protected] for pricing and more information.
All the grains we offer are clean, dry, and ready to use, and come in a variety of bag sizes and quantities.We also offer transportation and logistic services to ensure timely delivery of our grain.
Granor Grains
- Organic soft red winter wheat
- Organic and transitional buckwheat
- Organic cereal rye
- Organic 2-row barley
- Organic yellow dent corn
- Organic Wapsie Valley heirloom corn
- Organic blue dent corn
- Organic Bloody Butcher red dent corn
- Organic soybeans
- Organic oats
- Organic straw
- Organic bread flour and pastry flour
Our First Grain Harvest
During the fall of 2014, Granor Farm began its foray into cultivating organic grain with planting just a few acres of winter rye. In July of the following year, with a combine that predated World War II, and an undeniable amount of beginner’s luck, we successfully completed our first rye harvest.
Sipping Whiskey
In 2015 we discovered that our organic rye made for some pretty tasty whiskey. We’ve since modernized our equipment, increased our acreage, expanded our plantings from just rye to include wheat, spelt, oats, and corn, and constructed our own on-farm facilities for cleaning, drying, and storing.
Field to Barrel to Bottle
Over the last four years, we have set aside some of our rye and wheat harvest for our own whiskey, currently aging in American White Oak barrels, with the remainder of our grains used by a local distillery, nearby breweries, and organic livestock producers. Later this year, Granor Farm plans to bottle its own whiskey, which will be available on a very limited basis.
Grain Philosophy
As with all of our crops, we believe that our grains must be produced in a way that is good for our soil, good for the people that tend it, and good for those in our community who share in the harvest with us.
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