Can University of Minnesota make Kernza the wheat of the future? Perennial wheatgrass

[NickB79]

http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_29083191/can-university-minnesota-make-kernza-wheat-future

Intermediate wheatgrass is a perennial, much like the grass growing in your neighborhood. You plant it once, and it comes back year after year, harvest after harvest, and that could be the advantage that puts it on cookie plates and bread racks around the world one day.

"That's been the 'holy grail' talk for years," said northern Minnesota farmer Richard Magnusson. "If you had a perennial wheat you didn't have to plant every year, you'd get rid of the tillage expense, the potential for erosion in annual crops."

Magnusson is one of three Roseau County farmers who harvested the country's first commercially grown Kernza crops this fall, using seed from the Land Institute in Salina, Kan.

I plan on purchasing seed as soon as it's available in a few years. In the meantime, here's what the Land Institute has to say about the benefits of Kernza: https://landinstitute.org/faq

[Salviati]

1. Very cool!

[Old Codger]

2. Interesting

Long term but necessary for the long term also...

[Agnosticsherbet]

3. This is very good.