Perennial cereal grain crops like Kernza® bring the climate-smart future of farming 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 at our home in the Midwest, 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

"As large food and beverage companies commit to using small blends of Kernza, the wholesome and delicious cereal grain is poised for wide adoption. But first, a supply must exist at scale. It's great to see Arcola leading the way".

Through collaboration partnerships with our expanding network of enrolled farmers and growers, Arcola exists to create highly impactful positive changes to farmland soil health, the environment, vital fresh water supplies, and human and planet health, at scale.  

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 lack of sufficient supply, and the resulting high cost of the grain and milled flour.

The team at Arcola 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 greater 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. 

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 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 closed-loop 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.

Cultivating better soil for superior food and a healthier planet for generations to come, Arcola 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.