About Altorado

Gary has farmed all his life except for years away at university. He was born and raised on a farm in Southern Alberta. His grandfather settled the land in 1910, his father after him and now Gary.
Gary’s father started as a seed grower in 1957. Gary followed in 1977 and remained a seed
grower until 2012. He continued farming as a commercial grower.

Today we farm 2720 acres. Main crops grown on the land are different varieties of wheat,
barley, peas, lentils, and flax. We work with many young farmers in our area and farm with
them. We also have cattle on our land that maintain that land by grazing the areas that are not cropped.

Gary has continued with seed cleaning. As seed growers, they had their own seed cleaning
equipment to clean the seed to make it ready for sale. Today we are custom cleaning the same grains listed above for customers in our area.

Our area is known for grains and large commercial beef cattle herds. Ranches range in size from 50 to over a 1000 head of beef cattle, and range from 500 acres to 80,000 plus acres.
This is our customer base that we serve.

I am Phoebe, I have worked for a multinational agricultural company, an international agricultural company and have run my own small business in agriculture. With our education and background of experience we are able to service our agriculturally broad customer base.