“SUPPORTING REGENERATIVE FARMING WITH PERENNIAL GRAINS.” Kodiak Cakes is knocking the #Kernza messaging out of the park on this one. Taste test with UMN Forever Green Initiative imminent. Thx Kodiak team, and thx all growers, biz, and partners that make products like this possible!!

Perennial rice delivers similar yields to annual rice with ~50% reduction in labor and input costs for the world's most widely consumed staple food! Tremendous basic science here, and great proof of concept for the potential of perennial grains.

New MN pilot grant program now LIVE to support biz, supply chain, and market dev. for #continuouslivingcover and #regenerativeagriculture ! Focus in on building mkts for new perennial and winter annual crops/systems. $420k available, $10-50k each, apps due 4/13. UMN Forever Green Initiative

Check this whole live-tweeted thread for highlights of a fantastic hearing in the #mnleg yesterday to advance the R&D and commercialization of new perennial and winter annual crops in the Upper Midwest.

Donald Wyse The New York Times Mitch Hunter Anne Schwagerl Mac Ehrhardt Albert Lea Seed Sen. Torrey Westrom Perennial Pantry Senator Heather Gustafson Christopher Abbott, Founder of @PerennialPantry, which processes and creates food products with #Kernza , is now speaking. Says these crops represent 'enormous economic opportunity' to MN, but investments in markets and supply chains are needed.

We need to bake conservation right into our cropping systems--it shouldn't be an add-on.

That's the promise of #Kernza and other new crops we're developing in UMN Forever Green Initiative.

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Great turnout at UMN Forever Green Initiative event in Morris, MN to learn about #winterbarley , KWS Hybrid Rye hybrid winter rye, #Kernza , and winter #camelina . Western MN growers interested in new crops to boost #continuouslivingcover
and #SoilHealth

MN entrepreneurs: Are you working on scaling value chains for #ForeverGreenUMN crops? Join this Minnesota Department of Agriculture listening session to learn about a new grant program that can help support your work.

#Kernza #continuouslivingcover MN Kernza

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“The seeds planted by visionary researchers would have never taken root in Minnesota without supportive state agencies, policymakers, committed advocates, and conservation-minded farmers.” US Nature4Climate Minnesota Department of Agriculture MN Kernza #COP27 bit.ly/3TC6CU3

By keeping #farmland covered with plants year round, perennial grains like Kernza® and “cash cover crops” like winter camelina can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase soil #carbon storage. MN Kernza The Land Institute Minnesota Department of Agriculture #COP27

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WOW.

Perennial rice is a reality. Good news for the perennial future of agriculture!

The Land Institute Donald Wyse Colin Cureton Randy Jackson #UMNForeverGreen

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Fengyi Hu's dedicated team at Yunnan University has succeeded in developing the first high yielding perennial grain in history. A harbinger of what's possible and what's to come.
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This is a game changer- #foodcop27 , US Nature4Climate Nature4Climate The Land Institute

For the next two weeks we’ll be following the international COP27 climate talks! Jess Gutknecht is there to represent with US Nature4Climate, The Land Institute, Institute on the Environment UMN Soil, Water, & Climate

#COP27 is here.

We're growing the next generation of scientists, professionals, civil servants, and partners working together to advance climate solutions. MN Kernza Jess Gutknecht Minnesota Department of Agriculture @turntales Donald Wyse Mitch Hunter #Kernza #UMNForeverGreen

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