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• Buckwheat production
• Why buckwheat?
• Where to grow
• Growth and development
• Varieties
• Soil and fertilizer
• How to sow
• When to sow
• Pests
• How to harvest
• When to harvest
• Yields
• Buyers
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• Forage
• Cover crop
• Please cite this as
• Björkman, T. (2009)
  Buckwheat Production Guide
  for the Northeast.em>
  Ver. 1.100716.
  Cornell University.
  http://hort.cornell.edu/bjorkman/
  lab/buck/guide/

Buckwheat Buyers

Most buckwheat production is contracted before it is planted.

The two regionally significant buyers are The Birkett Mills (grain to be milled) and AgriCulver (seed production).

Contacts

The Birkett Mills
Cliff Orr: (315) 536-3311
P.O. Box 440
Penn Yan, NY 14527

AgriCulver
Steve Treleaven: (607) 387-5788
Trumansburg, NY 14866

There are many small mills buying from local farms. These include:

Ernst Conservation Seed
Meadville, PA
(800) 873-3321

Zanella Milling
West Sunbury, PA
(412) 637-2864

Hazelton Milling
Bruceton Mills, WV
(304) 379-7755

 

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