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Organic Soft White Wheat, 41 lbs.
Our certified organic soft white wheat berries are triple-cleaned and perfect for making baked goods prepared from batters, including biscuits, cakes and whole grain pastries!
Convenient & safe storage
Our soft white wheat is certified organic and non-GMO, and comes in six-gallon buckets (or pails... another word for the same container), containing 41 lbs. net weight. When you store soft wheat at home, it needs to be protected in a couple of ways. First, it needs to be protected from a variety of little critters who'd like to get to it before you do. Weevils and rodents, for example. You also need to protect your soft white wheat berries from picking up excessive additional moisture, which can be drawn from the atmosphere. The buckets our soft wheat comes in provide full protection against these storage risks so your grain enjoys complete peace and quiet until you want to use it, even if that’s ten or twenty years from now. They have airtight gasket-sealed lids and oxygen absorber packets that remove the oxygen from the air in the bucket after we put the lid on. The O2 absorbers leave an atmosphere of nitrogen in the bucket (because air is mainly oxygen and nitrogen). If you don't already have a bucket lid removal tool, they make lid removal easy (see lower section of this web page). Note: Our organic soft wheat does not come packaged in a Mylar bag.
Beat oxidation
In whole-grain foods, the plant's cellular walls protect nutrients from oxidation. The process of oxidation begins to occur as soon as grain is ground, exposing the cell's contents to oxygen in the air. Flour that is several days (or more) old, has been exposed to oxygen that inevitably diminishes its nutritional value. The way to get full nutrition from whole grain foods is to mill them when you need them, right in your kitchen. Modern high-speed grain mills make it fast and easy to enjoy the freshest, best tasting and most nutritious food imaginable! All of our soft white wheat is triple-cleaned to ensure purity and protect your grain mill from any foreign objects. (Soft Wheat that isn't sufficiently cleaned may contain small stones that will damage or destroy a grain mill... not to mention that you don't want such things in your food!) Trace amounts of wild wheat and wild mustard seed may be present; these are harmless and have no influence on baking results or flavor.
Shelf Life
Our organic soft wheat has a shelf life of 10+ years when unopened and stored in a cool, dark, dry environment.
Non-GMO
All of Pleasant Hill Grain's whole grain products are natural (non-GMO). Also, PHG does not sell any grains, beans, lentils, pulses or seeds sourced from China.
Soft Wheat Uses
Soft wheat (triticum aestivum)has a low protein content and a high starch/carbohydrate content. Consequently there’s little gluten development when using soft wheat flour, and the gluten that will develop is of low strength. Because of these characteristics and its mild flavor, soft wheat is ideal for making light and tender whole grain biscuits, pancakes, pastries, quick breads and more!
To give you an idea of how soft wheat differs from hard wheat, the protein content of soft wheat is typically around 7-9%, while hard wheat typically has a protein content of 10-15%.
In the U.S., soft wheat is mainly grown east of the Mississippi, although some is grown in the Pacific Northwest.
Soft wheat can be either red wheat or white wheat; ours is organic soft white wheat, and like all of our grain, it’s non-GMO. Soft wheat is typically a winter wheat, which means it's planted in the autumn, grows a few inches tall before it’s covered with snowfall through the winter, and lies dormant until the ground warms up in early spring. In the early spring the wheat resumes growth until it’s ready to be harvested. Winter wheat tends to have slightly lower protein content than spring wheat.
Whole grain soft wheat flour is the same thing as whole grain pastry flour.
Make your own whole grain cake flour by measuring 1 cup of finely ground soft wheat flour then substituting 2 tablespoons of that flour with 2 tablespoons of cornstarch.
To make whole grain all-purpose flour at home simply combine hard wheat flour with soft wheat flour at a 50:50 ratio. Our customers have been very happy with their results when mixing hard white or hard red wheat with our soft wheat for their general purpose whole grain flour.
Soft wheat can be ground into flour using a stone burr mill, impact mill, or steel burr mill. Click here to find the grain mill that’s best for you.
This organic pastry wheat is not a good choice for making bread dough. For dough-bread making, the most popular choices are the hard red or hard white wheat berries as well as spelt, kamut or rye. We also offer durum wheat for making pasta.
Additional Options
Pleasant Hill Grain offers over thirty kinds of whole grain products!
Our food category offers many selections of baking ingredients, delicious dried fruits and vegetables, long-term storable foods, canned meat, fish and poultry, sweeteners and more.
As a whole grains shopper you may also be interested in hand crank and electric grain mills and grain flakers as well as heavy duty Bosch mixers, Ankarsrum (formerly Electrolux), Haussler spiral dough mixers, and Famag spiral dough mixers!
Gamma Seal Lids are remarkably practical two-part gadgets that transform standard plastic buckets into rugged, gasketed, resealable storage containers that are both air-tight and water-tight.
Exceptional Value of Bulk Grain
It's well known that basic natural foods tend to be lower in cost and much higher in nutrition than processed commercial choices, but we were still a little shocked when we compared the cost of a staple like whole grain wheat, to items on the shelves at a local grocery store. Our grain comes packaged 45 lbs. to a bucket, so we're reporting each cost here, for that same net weight. The cost of living index in Nebraska is comparatively low, so processed foods like the examples shown here are priced even higher in most areas. We came away from this exercise with a heightened appreciation for the low cost and exceptional value of quality basic foods like whole grain wheat!
45 lbs. of Wheaties™ cereal |
$248 |
45 lbs. of Capt'n Crunch™ cereal |
$219 |
45 lbs. of Nacho Cheese Doritos™ |
$259 |
45 lbs. of Maxwell House™ coffee |
$193 |
45 lbs. of 9 Lives™ (the cat food!) |
$98 |
Shipping Zones
Please note: The shipping zones below are for the 48 contiguous states. For shipment to AK/HI, please call (866) 467-6123 or email us for a cost quote.
NEED A LOT OF GRAIN?
When you order a full pallet of grain (36 buckets) or more, you earn a discount of $25 per bucket. And if you order 3 full pallets or more, the discount is $30 per bucket. (See the discount amounts in the table below.) These terms apply to this offer:
- Your order may consist of a single product, or any combination of these grain, beans, rice, etc.
- Total quantity must be a multiple of 12. So you can order 36 or 48 or 60 buckets, but not 37 or 55, for example.
- You must have a quantity of at least 36 buckets, in a total quantity divisible by 12, in your cart for the discount to apply.
- This offer applies to grain, beans, lentils, rice, or oilseeds (such as flax) that are packaged in buckets.
- All buckets must be in stock.
- The order can be delivered in one of two ways:
1.) It can be delivered to a business address with a forklift or dock and which is NOT also a residence.
2.) OR the order may be picked up at the freight terminal in your area, within 3 business days of arrival. (Storage charges would start after 3 days.)
BULK SUPERPAIL DISCOUNT |
No. Buckets |
Bucket Discount |
Total Discount |
36 |
$25 |
$900 |
48 |
$25 |
$1200 |
60 |
$25 |
$1500 |
72 |
$25 |
$1800 |
84 |
$25 |
$2100 |
96 |
$25 |
$2400 |
108 |
$30 |
$3240 |
120 |
$30 |
$3600 |
132 |
$30 |
$3960 |
144 |
$30 |
$4320 |
156 |
$30 |
$4680 |
168 |
$30 |
$5040 |
Orders of 36 buckets or more will receive the discounts above automatically, in your shopping cart.
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This was my 3rd purchase from Pleasant Hill Grain, and I'm happy as usual. The wheat came in a few days, and its packaging was excellent as always. Vacuum sealed incredibly tight in a Mylar bag inside a 6 gallon food grade bucket. Just add a screw-on lid and you're good to go. I like to mix soft white wheat into my hard white wheat when I make bread so that it is a little fluffier. This will do nicely.
It honestly couldn't go any smoother. I'm an organic freak. I have to eat a very specific diet because I'm allergic to everything. So I make 95% of my food from scratch other than olive oil, etc. With the over processing of flour and grains, I purchased myself a mill and have been milling my grain for flour along with a variety of other uses. The grain was delivered with no issues. Every bucket has been clean and well packaged, air tight in very sturdy rodent proof containers. If they keep up this kind of quality, I may be purchasing from them for a very very long time. You will not be disappointed. I think of no other place to purchase my grain, I give it a massive AAAAA+++++!!!!!
I've purchased and continue to purchase various products from your company. The grains I receive are always properly vacuum sealed, ready to store for long term. The grains are fresh non-gmo products. I honestly couldn't be more pleased! I hesitate leaving great reviews because it seems as though it goes to the company's head and their service seems to decline over time. But, I have to give credit where credit is due, you guys are fantastic! Excellent service and products! Let's do what we can to support these non-gmo growers!!! You guys are awesome!
Never purchased whole grains before. Spent about a month researching online sources. I always found my way back to PHG. Ended up purchasing over 200 pounds of grains and extra storage buckets and lids. The information provided on the website about each product is most useful. I ended up printing the info out and attaching to my storage buckets. Customer service called prior to shipping to verify my address since it was different than billing. I received email notifications on an back ordered items. I am very happy with with the service and products I purchased. I’ve always considered myself loyal to products and service if it meets my expectations. PHG has does that for me and I will continue to purchase in the future.
I use it in place of all my recipes that call for all purpose flour. I am now playing with it in my cakes and pastries just to see how well it works there too.
I'm always happy with the grains and other products from Pleasant Hill. Excellent customer service, excellent packaging, fast shipping..... who could ask for more?
I’ve never had a problem with Pleasant Hill products and service. I continue to use them to get quality products. Their soft white wheat makes excellent flour for many of my baking passions, mostly my whole wheat breads
I ordered several superpails of wheat. Although I haven't tried the producdt yet, I am pleased. It's not easy to find organic grains in my area. I receved the best customer service, shipping and overall process. I plan to purchase more for my long term food storage again soon. Thanks!
I love this company. They stand behind their products. I had some trouble with some corn and they replaced it, though I never asked for that.
I tried the one-pound sample bag, then ordered the 45-lb bucket. I grind the wheat to make challah, just enough for each batch. Great product, great company.