About Concentrates Inc.

 

In 1938, Concentrates began as a buyer’s co-op for farmers, farm supply stores and feed mills who wanted to take advantage of their combined buying power.  

In the early 1990’s as Concentrates' shareholders aged, they invited Bill Sparks (the Bookkeeper turned Manager) to purchase one of the last shares.   Later he would buy the old building and the remainder of the shares.

In 1997 Heather Havens joined Concentrates.  She expanded and highlighted our organic soil amendments, feed products, and services.  She has a BS in Agriculture from OSU, is an Organic Agriculture educator and consultant, and she was involved in the creation of the OSU Organic Master Gardener Program.

Sadly, in 2007 she and her husband moved to Vancouver BC.  But, her love of Oregon and Concentrates brought her back in November of 2009.  Happily for Heather and our customers she is home and again working for Concentrates Inc.

Concentrates has an organic farmer and a horticulturalist on staff, too, to help customers figure out what products might be best for them.

Originally the co-op members were primarily buying “Feed Concentrates”, which are the different feed ingredients needed for livestock to provide additional minerals, energy, and salts to their base diet of forage and grains.  Fast forward a few decades and many things had changed.  New faces in Bill and later Heather, but the most important things stayed the same:  Quality, friendly knowledgeable service and low prices.   Concentrates, Inc. started carrying feed in the mid 90’s when Darigold stopped selling retail from their Inner SE Portland Mill. Concentrates continues to add other lines of national, local, organic and conventional feeds.

Concentrates has always carried meals, such as cottonseed, linseed, kelp, fish, bone, blood, and feather.  In the 1990's, organic farmers noticed that we carried these products, which are not only feed concentrates, but are great organic and natural fertilizers.  As the desire for new products arose, new items were added to the inventory.  These included organic fertilizers made from rocks, like rock phosphate, glacial rock Dust, and natural ground limestone.  When pre-mixed Organic fertilizers became available, we brought them in, too. Word spread throughout the west that Concentrates was the place to get bulk organic fertilizer ingredients.  Concentrates grew to become the largest wholesale distributor of Organic fertilizers on the West Coast.  

Concentrates has always distributed Morton Salt's quality products, and recently we have also become a distributor for Redmond Salt, a natural, Organic, premium trace mineral salt from Utah.

Concentrates carries an eclectic range of products for all kinds of farmers, home-owners, and businesses. Please explore our site and find what we have in store for you!