Jared Goplen, a farmer and University of Minnesota Extension educator on crops and forage, is seeing more interest in small grains in traditional corn and soybean country for a few reasons: soil ...

Flexibility. For farmers today, that one little word can mean added opportunity to a crop management plan. That’s certainly true for Iowa farmer Randy Riediger. By incorporating small grains into his ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — About a dozen farmers huddled under a blue tent at Lawler Farm for the June 17 University of Minnesota Extension small grain summer plot tour, as the last of a line of storms ...

When Kim and Steve Andersen moved to their farm near Brighton, Iowa, in 2006, they had no intention of farming the land themselves. The land has been in Kim’s family for generations and had been ...

A new program at the Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming attempts to bring grains back to the center of the local food system The Glynwood Center’s Grains and Staples program incentivizes ...

a, Traditional labor-intensive (left) and the next-generation mechanized (right) production of F1 hybrid seeds are compared. In a traditional hybrid seed production process, the male sterile line ...

Hybrid rice—bred from two different parents—greatly contributes to food security. However, the process of hybrid seed production is labor intensive, and fully mechanized hybrid rice breeding is ...