Deme Stephens
Email: Deme.Stephens@gmail.com
Website: www.instagram.com/demeslc/
Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/TurkeyRedPeople/
Operational Info
Scale of Operations: 880 acres
Climate: Semi-arid
Distribution: Other
Certifications: Biodynamic, Organic
Crop families experienced with in seed production: Corn, Grain, Wheat
Is seed in any quantities available for purchase? Yes
Instructions for purchasing: Grain is available year round.
Buyers are welcome to pick up grain at the farm gate, bulk or bagged. Small packages, up to 20 pounds, are shipped via USPS. Third-party transportation must be arranged by the buyer for larger amounts, limit 1,200 pounds per pallet.
Open to contracting for seed production?: Yes
Bio
Growers of large and small grains for five generations.We specialize in open pollinated grains for affordable food, feed, seed, and cover crops: Turkey Red hard red winter wheat, Snow White hard white winter wheat, forage sorghum, grain sorghum, flint corn, and more planned.
Plant winter wheat in the fall and it will put down thin roots underground and a lawn-like carpet above ground. It grows two-feet, to five-feet tall the following spring. It can be harvested for straw and grain the that summer.
Winter wheat self-terminates as a cover crop if you plant it in the spring; it won't develop seed properly without winter freezing (vernalization.)
