2023 Global Research Updates - The Land Institute

Read about global research updates on perennial grains. The Land Institute’s international network continues to grow and strengthen the collaborative research community, from global researcher consensus on the viability of perennial agriculture to the breakthrough in perennial rice research by partners in China.

Read the 2023 Perennial Impact Report now for the most recent updates in perennial agriculture.

READ THE 2023 PERENNIAL IMPACT REPORT

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February 26, 2026

Consumer insights from Kernza research: “How much would you pay for this bread?”

Cornell University offered an inside look at how they pursued new Kernza research on consumer preferences and willingness to pay for Kernza perennial grain bread....

Iowa grower sees benefits of conservation management

Iowa grower sees benefits of conservation management

Iowa-based Kernza grower Lee Tesdell met with Brownfield Ag News to discuss conservation strategies, including planting Kernza, that have helped him improve the soil structure, water...

A Focus on Grain Crops

Grain crops are the staple foods of humanity, providing more than half of modern society’s food calories and occupying two-thirds of the cropland. Several non-grain...

An Integrative Story: Civic Science Communities for Perennial Crops and People

An Integrative Story: Civic Science Communities for Perennial Crops and People

Oct. 1, 2020–For the next installment in the Center for the Study of the American West’s (CSAW) research talk series, Aubrey Streit Krug, Director of...

The Importance of Soil

A thin layer made up of minerals, organic matter, roots, microbes, gases and water forms the basis of life for people and many other species....

February 1, 2019

What is Crop Protection Ecology

My science background is in community ecology of pest insects. Before I came to TLI I was studying the effects of crop diversity and organic...

Silphium, a perennial sunflower

Wild Plants to the Rescue

Efforts to domesticate new, high-yield, perennial grain crops require patience and persistence—but such plants could transform agriculture “You had to spend all those years in...

Living Nets in a New Prairie Sea

Living Nets in a New Prairie Sea

Author Joseph Kinsey Howard describes a spring day in 1883 in North Dakota when John Christiansen, a Scandinavian farmer, looked up while plowing a field...