The Business of Agriculture

Running south of Portland, Oregon, the Willamette Valley runs about 120 miles and the farmers there produce some 300-plus crops. One major crop is grass seed. If you've bought a bag of grass seed at your nursery or home improvement store, there's a very good chance it came from Oregon. While speaking to the Oregon Seed League conference, I ran across Brenda, Macey, and Shelly — three women with family roots in Oregon Ag who are now running their own diversified Ag operations. Each of them used their base in grass seed production to expand their Ag operations into tree nuts, a trucking company, and even an international Ag export company. Sponsored by LandTrust landtrust.com