Through collaboration partnerships with our expanding network of farmers and growers, we exist to create highly impactful positive changes to farmland soil health, the environment, vital fresh water supplies, and human and planet health, at scale.
Our forward-thinking work seeks to broaden the impact and reach of natural and regenerative agricultural practices, in an era where degraded farmland soil has global consequences.
Arcola Farms Group is a leader in innovation and commercialization of the next generation of University researched and created perennial crops, that return each spring on their own without the need (and expense) of annually replanting them.
In the process, we are advancing the farming and soil health practices found in the principles of regenerative agriculture.
With full vertical integration, we coordinate the sustainable farming and food supply chain, from the seed that's planted, to the crops that are harvested, to the products that are created. We are the conduit between growers and their crops, and the markets we serve.
From grower education to crop management and monitoring, from mobile custom harvesting to on-farm pickup of the harvest, our complete farm services bring a turn-key solution to expanding acres of what we see as the most important crop innovation in regenerative agriculture today.
The future of farming. The future of food. Kernza® perennial grain
Widely touted for its deep root structure and far-reaching positive environmental benefits when planted at scale, the current and primary crop we offer to growers, industry, and consumers is the versatile perennial grain and showcase crop of Kernza®.
What is a Perennial? Two decades of University and Land Institute breeding research and development now means that we don't have to plant wheat grass crops every season. Each spring for 3 primary grain production seasons, Kernza emerges and grows on its own, like the plants that come up every spring in your back yard. For farmers, growers, and the environment, it means we have eliminated the need for toxic pesticides and herbicides in the fields where Kernza is grown. Soil health, planet health, and the far reaching benefits to human health are the result.
Below the ground - The proof is in the soil: Growers, farmers and land managers document the success - Kernza is a single-source soil health restoration tool with powerful farmland benefits. With unprecedented protection and filtration of our vital fresh water supplies, and high levels of carbon sequestration (documented at 0.41 tons per acre), Kernza's 10' deep root system creates a thriving below-ground fungal network ecosystem with one single planting that manages it's own growth.
Above the ground: It is a naturally occurring, single ingredient high protein (19g), high fiber (18g), low gluten, low starch perennial whole grain.
Kernza is available as one of the top healthy, nutritious food, grain, and flour ingredient choices for use with chefs, nutrition leaders. product researchers, and food and beverage manufacturers. With its high protein, low starch nature, Kernza happens to be a very popular choice as a core ingredient in the brewing and distilling industries. It makes great beer and whiskey.
Vital for our work in the Midwest, we know that Kernza® has the potential to create great environmental impact, and wide commercialization application, when it's planted at scale. Until recently, commercialization has been restricted by the high cost of the grain and milled flour, and by lower than expected yields in the fields.
The team at Arcola Farms has changed that. With efficient, centralized, consolidated supply and storage on rail lines and trucking routes, we bring easy access to the whole grain and flour with reduced transportation costs. By researching and investing in the latest technology and systems for small grains cleaning and processing, we have lowered the cost of bringing it from field to market. And with investment in the latest specialized small grains harvesting equipment available, we can now harvest Kernza® with great efficiency, dramatically increasing yields.
Higher yields bring increased production quantities. More production increases the available supply in all three grain categories; Conventional, Organic, and Regenerative Organic Certified grains. Lower processing costs allows for lower prices, making Kernza® widely available in the marketplace at prices that manufacturers and consumers are able and willing to pay.
The key to the future of all the newly researched perennial crops, like Kernza®, is the substantial increase in acres under management. That's where Arcola Farms comes in.
Sustainable solutions for food and agriculture should come from the historic home of grain and flour. Cultivating better soil for superior food and a healthier planet for generations to come, Arcola Farms is proud to be transforming the future of farming and food.
To learn more, please visit www.Kernza.org, www.LandInstitute.org, and check out the current and future perennial crops being researched and commercialized at The University of Minnesota's Forever Green Initiative https://forevergreen.umn.edu/
High impact agricultural solutions, from the historic home of American grain, flour, and food.
"Our mission to use the latest in regenerative agriculture innovation as a human health solution, and a planet health solution, allow us to make global impact starting in our home state of Minnesota, where the Headwaters of the Mississippi River begin the journey to carry our solutions to the Gulf of Mexico. We seek to lead, to provide food supply and agriculture knowledge and information as our farming systems adapt for a healthier tomorrow. Public and climate health outcomes improve when we first address the most important part of health...The soil" ~ David Stennes, Founder
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