Soil Organic Matter: Humanity's True Capital | Francesca Cotrufo

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Soil Organic Matter: Humanity’s True Capital | Francesca Cotrufo

2019 Prairie Festival

Francesca Cotrufo, PhD, Professor and Associate Head of the Department of Soil and Crop Sciences at Colorado State University speaks at The Land Institute’s 2019 Prairie Festival.

May 2, 2025

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Kernza® Earth Week

Wichita’s KSN News traveled to Salina for Earth Week 2025 to speak with The Land Institute’s Tessa Peters on Kernza® commercialization. KSN also stopped by...

May 1, 2025

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Wheat in Kansas

The episode “Wheat in Kansas” from PBS’s America the Bountiful series includes The Land Institute’s work with Kernza, collecting perspectives from Lee DeHaan, Lead Scientist...

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The Land Institute on Civic Science TV

Dr. Aubrey Streit Krug, Director of the Perennial Cultures Lab, speaks on the Perennial Atlas civic science project at The Land Institute and discusses the...

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Agroecology: From Annual to Perennial Crop Farming

Tim Crews, The Land Institute’s Chief Scientist and International Initiative Director, appeared on the Care More Be Better podcast to discuss the future of food...

Interviews

Real Ag: An Interview With Rachel Stroer

The Land Institute’s President Rachel Stroer sat down with Smoky Hills PBS at The Land Institute’s Salina, Kansas headquarters for their “Real Ag” series, discussing...

September 24, 2024

Interviews

Living Roots and Perennial Cultures in Agriculture with The Land Institute

Aubrey Streit Krug, Director of the Perennial Cultures Lab, spoke with the host of the Common Ground: A Prairie Podcast about the cultural dimensions of agriculture...

Video

Michael Fields Agricultural Institute testing new type of grain to promote Wisconsin farmers and businesses

Nicole Tautges, agroecologist at the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, spoke with Spectrum News 1 to highlight how Kernza can help growers produce a grain crop...

Interviews

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...

Interviews

Perennial grain crop Kernza gaining traction in Colorado: 9NEWS

Channel 9NEWS out of Denver, CO spoke with Tessa Peters, Director of Crop Stewardship at The Land Institute, Todd Olander, Kernza Grower of Root Shoot...

Video

Regenerative and Locally-Adapted Grains in Wyoming and Beyond: Wyoming Food Coalition Speaker Series

Hana Fancher and Tessa Peters from The Land Institute’s Crop Stewardship Program provided an overview of the process of agricultural transformation from conception to consumption of...

Interviews

Combines and Coffee: Episode 5 with Brandon Schlautman

Brandon Schlautman, Lead Scientist in the Perennial Legumes Program, discusses insights into developing perennial legume systems and the challenges and opportunities of introducing perennial crops...

Interviews

Harvesting Change: Are Perennial Crops the Future of Food?

Flatland, the Nonprofit Newsroom at Kansas City PBS, visited The Land Institute to learn about the perennialization of grain crops and the role of perennial...

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