Perennial Grains

[Blaithin]

AAFC in Lethbridge has done perennial trials and development. Breton Plots has been working with them for a while. A professor in Manitoba is working with Kernza wheat and ACE 1 rye and the GRO has sourced their seeds from him I believe.

The research is definitely being done on the prairies, not just in other countries. That being said, Russia is very similar to here so studies they do can benefit us and vice versa.

[Klause]

AAFC in Lethbridge has done perennial trials and development. Breton Plots has been working with them for a while. A professor in Manitoba is working with Kernza wheat and ACE 1 rye and the GRO has sourced their seeds from him I believe.

The research is definitely being done on the prairies, not just in other countries. That being said, Russia is very similar to here so studies they do can benefit us and vice versa.

Kernza was developed in the USA.

ACE 1 is developed from genetics Germany developed for Africa.


Evaluating other countries' developments isn't the same as producing leading edge technology... If you're evaluating somebody else' work, they are already ahead of you.

Remember when we developed things like... Clearfield resistant pulses? New ryhzobacteria strains? CANOLA? The highest quality milling wheats in the world?? We need to return to those roots... and that's by funding public research programs, hiring researchers, and kicking the funding mode we have now and multinational seed companies in the rear.


Also funny, and grass ChuckChuck and Austranada will like this - but the Rodale Institute and the Land Institute are proponents of regenerative, organic agriculture.

[WiltonRanch]

Having the same crop on a piece of ground for multiple years sounds like a nice idea but think about the potential for disease, weeds, and yield decline throughout subsequent years of a perennial stand. If you were banking on a 3 year nitrogen fixing wheat crop that would be tops. Then rotate to a non cereal for a couple years. The ACE 1 rye has been around for 15 years at least but don’t think it has enough winter hardiness. It’s a start though. Heck can’t even get a winter wheat to work consistently.