Christian Kongsore Sr. of Seattle, began milling oats in 1986 in a converted feed mill on Madison Street in Eugene along the Southern Pacific Railroad in downtown Eugene.

Basicly, oats grown in soil, poor Western Canada are shipped by train to Eugene to be processed into cereal grains: flakes, flours, and brans.

Oats will grow fairly well in poor quality soil, thus the western provinces of Canada are idealy suited for raising oats.

The produce is shipped to food-producing locations in the western U.S. and Canada; places such as Nestle's, Orowheat,and Golden Temple-another Eugene based company. Some brilliant red maples

Traincars of oats are emptied into a pit, conveyed to the silo's upper reaches, then the processes of cleaning, classifiying, de-hulling, kilning(drying), and rolling(flattening) take place, utilizing gravity. All processing is manual, not chemical. The products: cereals, pancakes mixes, Scottish oatmeal, & flours and brans are packaged and shipped out to the tune of 140 tons/day.