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Prairie Festival 2014 | Land Institute Science Staff
Scientist presentations at the 2014 Prairie Festival.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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September 24, 2024
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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