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 ...

The University of Maine is assisting in research funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to help bolster the small grains industry. Cornell University is leading the research which ...

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 ...

For three years, Nathanael Gonzales-Siemens drove up California’s coast for 14 hours every month for a routine task: milling his grain into flour. “I was literally not able to find a flour mill at my ...

With proper disease management, the South Dakota small grains harvest should yield a bumper crop, according to an SDSU agronomy field specialist. David Karki, an agronomy field specialist for SDSU ...

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 people are asked what a “small farm” is, they may base their answer on the number of acres or number of animals a farm has – and they often assume that there aren’t many of them. However, small, ...

ZUMBRO RIVER VALLEY, Minnesota — From his combine on an October afternoon, harvesting dried-out soybeans the color of dust, Martin Larsen points to a hillside where his ancestors from Scandinavia ...

From 9 to 5, Terry Ellis works as an engineer for defense contractor Northrop-Grumman in San Diego. At night, and on weekends, he’s a serious sourdough bread baker—and an aspiring grain farmer. Expand ...