Seed Cleaning

When drought conditions prevail, some farmers get innovative. Even with the drought, Raymond Mosman and his wife Morgan grow mostly seed crops these days. But they seized an opportunity when Jacklin Seed Company quit cleaning seed. The Mosman’s saw a need, and a new niche. 

"The original idea was to build a cleaner for our farm and we were going to process our own seed and the more we started looking into it, the more it made sense to build one that was bigger and more efficient and to be able to run it year-round, We were able to spread the cost around a little bit more with custom cleaning and we are growing in our cleaning capacity," said Ray Mosman.

 Other Camas prairie seed growers are coming to Mosman to clean, package and sell their seed…filling the void that seed giant Jacklin left behind. 

"The first year we did about 6 million pounds of seed, this coming year we have 10-million pound of seed booked that we will be cleaning, so turf grass, natives and reclamation grass," said Mosman. 

Grass seed will be a challenge in ’21 But the Mosmans have vowed to tough it out…farming in a post-pandemic and pre-drought year.