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    #1

    Perennial Grains

    Has anyone done any research on them? Or maybe has contacts or has heard of someone doing research on them?

    My curiosity has been piqued and looking for some people to chat to.
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    I believe GRO (Gateway Research Organisation) out of Westlock got some seed this year and is trying it out.

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      #3
      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.

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        #4
        will never happen the agro sector can not make money of farmers then

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          #5
          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.

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            #6
            Canola is a perennial pain in the ass.

            That's my "expert" opinion!

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              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.

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                #8
                LMFAO...OK. Then it's perennially an annual pain in the ass.

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                  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.

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                    #10
                    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.

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