Information for both Commercial Small Farms and high value specialty crops. Resources, research and educational programming serving Crook, Deschutes and Jefferson counties.
Deschutes County
Photo: OSU Extension Master Gardeners (Cropped from original)
The OSU Extension Service in Linn, Benton and surrounding counties conducts educational programs for farmers and agri-business representatives. Extension Agents also play an important role in applied field research. Several agricultural agents work in Linn and surrounding counties on an area basis.
Linn County
Photo: Russell Smith-Ollivierre (Cropped from original)
The mild climate of the Willamette Valley supports a diverse vegetable industry. The specialty seed industry in Oregon produces a variety of seed crops, over 170 crop species ranging from vegetable seed to cover crop and ornamental flowers.
Green peas for processing have historically been an important crop for dryland farmers in the western foothills of the Blue Mountains near Milton-Freewater.
