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Luke Peterson, left, and Carmen Fernholz pose in front of a cutter used to harvest Kernza at A-Frame Farm near Madison, Minnesota. They became farm partners in 2016; they work to help farmers find markets for the perennial grain.
Lucas Peterson gathers a handful of Kernza grain as it's unloaded from a truck.
Lucas Peterson inspects Kernza grain as it's unloaded from a truck. Kernza is the trademark name for the grain of an intermediate wheatgrass, which was developed at The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas.
A dual-use crop, Kernza can produce straw in the summer plus forage in spring and fall as well as grain.
Kernza roots – which can grow to as much as 10 feet long – can reduce nitrate leaching.
Soybeans grow in a field of winter camelina shortly before the camelina is harvested.
A supply-chain stakeholder group views a flowering winter camelina field in 2021 near Rosemount, Minnesota.
The world’s food supply depends on about 150 plant species. And of that total, just 12 provide three-quarters of the world’s food, according to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. The world could use new crops.
Nicholas Jordan
Lynn Grooms writes about the diversity of agriculture, including the industry’s newest ideas, research and technologies as a staff reporter for Agri-View based in Wisconsin.
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Sarah Lloyd is working as a supply-chain specialist for the University of Wisconsin-led Grassland 2.0 project – a collaborative group of farme…
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