Cloepfil Farms

10/09/2025

01/14/2025

I have spent countless nights since I decided to farm thinking about this one phrase. “It takes 2 generations to build a farm and one generation to lose it.” I’m not sure if the weight of those wor…

06/19/2024

Happily growing three of the top 20!

225 commodities statewide is incredible and shows the diversity of our state.

And the top commodity for 2024 is... 🥁🪴⁠
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Congratulations to Oregon's greenhouse and nursery industry for taking home the top spot once again. Cattle & calves claimed 2nd place, with hay and milk coming in 3rd and 4th, respectively. Grass seed rounded out the top 5 with a production value of $791.5 million, solidifying the state's title as "grass seed capital of the world." ⁠
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Although these rankings represent the top 20 agriculture commodities in Oregon, it is important to recognize Oregon agriculture’s ability to produce more than 225 commodities across the state, each of which brings value to the state’s economy. ⁠
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Nationally, Oregon ranks No. 1 for the production of hazelnuts, Christmas trees, rhubarb, crimson clover seed, orchard grass seed, fescue seed, ryegrass seed, red clover seed, sugar beet for seed, and white clover seed.⁠
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A note on the data: All production values are based on estimates from the 2022 crop year. ⁠

Take a closer look at these numbers and the rest of the 2024 agricultural statistics: https://oda.direct/Statistics

03/06/2023

Go tell your story and help get the funding!

The research at our Agricultural Experiment Stations on campus and at 14 experiment station locations across the state bring vital, relevant solutions to some our most pressing ag and natural resource challenges.

As part of the OSU , this work is often quiet — but it is constant. We want to hear from you about how your work, community or industry has benefitted from this quiet commitment. Thank you for being a part of the College of , the OSU Statewides, and for helping to make tomorrow better for everyone. !

Please consider taking a few moments to share your story:
https://agsci.oregonstate.edu/cas-communications-team/webform/building-more-resilient-oregon

03/01/2023

The clouds lifted and what a view!!! Nice crisp morning for taking some straw to the press.

02/26/2023

Protect Oregon’s Family Farms New legislation proposed by Oregon legislators threaten Oregon’s family farms and ranches. The proposed bills will add unnecessary additional regulations, making it harder for farms to update their existing facilities with upgrades designed for long term sustainabil...

10/21/2021

Anyone else’s farmer always seem to be doing this??? Farming takes a lot of planning, organizing, evaluating and readjusting. Communication is a key skill for all farmers.

Okay, some like to shoot the breeze a bit too. ;)

10/19/2021

Such a beautiful sunrise this morning! Great way to kick off our first hazelnut harvest.

10/12/2021

And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker." So God made a farmer.

God said, "I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, milk cows, work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper and then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board." So God made a farmer.

"I need somebody with arms strong enough to rustle a calf and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild. Somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry, have to wait lunch until his wife's done feeding visiting ladies and tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon -- and mean it." So God made a farmer.

God said, "I need somebody willing to sit up all night with a newborn c**t. And watch it die. Then dry his eyes and say, 'Maybe next year.' I need somebody who can shape an ax handle from a persimmon sprout, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire, who can make harness out of haywire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. And who, planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty-hour week by Tuesday noon, then, pain'n from 'tractor back,' put in another seventy-two hours." So God made a farmer.

God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds and yet stop in mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor's place. So God made a farmer.

God said, "I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bails, yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-combed pullets, who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadow lark. It had to be somebody who'd plow deep and straight and not cut corners. Somebody to seed, w**d, feed, breed and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk and replenish the self-feeder and finish a hard week's work with a five-mile drive to church.
"Somebody who'd bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who would laugh and then sigh, and then reply, with smiling eyes, when his son [OR DAUGHTER 😉] says he wants to spend his life 'doing what dad does.'"

So God made a farmer.

Happy !!! 🚜🌾