Perennial Grains

**grassfarmer** · May 31, 2019, 12:06

I believe GRO (Gateway Research Organisation) out of Westlock got some seed this year and is trying it out.

**GDR** · May 31, 2019, 12:13

Few years back there was talk about perenial wheat. If they could combine that with nitrogen fixation that they are working on boy would that change agriculture as we know it.

**tubs** · May 31, 2019, 12:30

will never happen the agro sector can not make money of farmers then

**Blaithin** · May 31, 2019, 14:11

Originally posted by grassfarmer View Post

I believe GRO (Gateway Research Organisation) out of Westlock got some seed this year and is trying it out.

Yes, Steve Kenyon was the one who initially got me looking into it. I've sent them an email, just waiting for word back.

**farmaholic** · May 31, 2019, 14:51

Canola is a perennial pain in the ass.

That's my "expert" opinion!

**Blaithin** · May 31, 2019, 15:03

Originally posted by farmaholic View Post

Canola is a perennial pain in the ass.

That's my "expert" opinion!

Not to fault your "expert" opinion or anything

but wouldn't Canola be an annual pain in the ass?

It's its capability to reseed itself with strong volunteer force that's the things true talent, not that it comes back year after year from the same plant? Unless I've been wrongly casting blame at the finches seeding my flower beds with it every year.

**farmaholic** · May 31, 2019, 15:10

LMFAO...OK. Then it's perennially an annual pain in the ass.

**macdon02** · May 31, 2019, 15:47

Originally posted by tubs View Post

will never happen the agro sector can not make money of farmers then

Govt will develop it and give it to the third world. Or India or Brazil or China. Cut our throat's with it.

**Klause** · May 31, 2019, 16:40

Originally posted by macdon02 View Post

Govt will develop it and give it to the third world. Or India or Brazil or China. Cut our throat's with it.

Russia is developing perennial wheat.

Argentina is working on a perennial soybean.

Our government - our industry - is so far behind the times there's literally nothing they have in the pipeline anybody else wants.

That's what happens when you have an industry built on profits and incremental releases instead of bleeding edge technology to further your people's prospects.

INTA is researching N fixing bacteria on winter ****. They claim two years from commercialization.

N-fixing bacteria for wheat is already used on 6 million plus hectares a year down there... Don't hear a peep over it in Canada.

Perennial Grains