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UC Davis Researching New Perennial Grain Crop - AG INFORMATION NETWORK OF THE WEST


UC Davis Researching New Perennial Grain Crop
Thursday Jan 21st, 2021
News Reporter
With California Ag Today, I’m Tim Hammerich.
University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program is part of a recently awarded $10 million grant from USDA focusing on the adoption of a perennial grain, Kernza®. The Land Institute’s Tessa Peters says Kernza® is a means to begin to shift U.S. agriculture towards reduced tillage and increased carbon sequestration.
Peters… “This is a forage grass that has been grown in the United States for over a hundred years. At The Land Institute, our breeders - our plant breeders, have spent the last 20-25 years working on improving the agronomic qualities of the grain from this crop. So increasing the seed size, increasing the number of grains that come out of the hull - so free threshing ability. And increasing the uniformity of maturity so that you can harvest the entire head of the grain cro ....

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