Perennial Wheat: 20 Years of Development Progress
In the rural communities surrounding The Land Institute in central Kansas, you can feel summer’s arrival—not just in the greening…
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International Initiative
Igniting a movement to advance just and diverse perennial grain agriculture at a global scale.
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Perennial Grain Crops
Natural ecosystems feature perennial plants. So does our approach to perennial grain agriculture.
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Ecological Intensification
Sunlight. Water. Soil. Microbes. Plants. People. The Land Institute brings them all together for sustainable farming.
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2024 Perennial Impact Report Now Available
The Land Institute’s 2024 Perennial Impact Report is now available. This year’s annual report highlights key developments and milestones in…
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“Prairie Prophecy” Documentary About Wes Jackson Premieres April 26, 2025
GET TICKETS! Perennial Films announced the premiere of their feature documentary Prairie Prophecy about the life and life’s work of…
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Intermediate wheatgrass as a dual use crop for grain and grazing
Long-time collaborators at the University of Minnesota and the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute in Wisconsin published a paper indicating the benefit of Kernza® (intermediate wheatgrass) as a dual-purpose crop, producing…
Regenerative Agronomic Approaches: Technological, Biochemical and Rheological Characterization of Four Perennial Wheat Lines Grown in Italy
Researchers in Italy looked at the chemical properties of multiple perennial wheat lines grown in Italy and compared them to those of Kernza perennial grain (Intermediate wheatgrass) and a modern…
Utilizing genetic variation in perennial sorghum to improve host plant resistance to aphids
The Land Institute’s Pheonah Nabukalu, Ebony Murrell, and Stan Cox collaborated with researchers at the University of Nebraska Lincoln on a paper looking the susceptibility of sorghum plants to aphids…