Forever Green research

• Intermediate Wheatgrass as a Perennial, Multifunctional Food and Energy Crop

• Field Pennycress:  A Potential New Short Season Winter Annual Oil Seed Crop for Use in the Corn/Soybean Rotation

• Developing Economically Valuable Natural Products from Native Minnesota Plants
  • Characterization of biologically active Rhus typhina extract using a bioassay-linked-metabolomics method

• Development of a Perennial Sunflower for Oil Production
  • The Development of Perennial Sunflower for Wildlife & Food Uses
  • Evaluating Perennial Sunflower for Wildlife & Food Uses
  • Perennial Sunflower Provides Food & Ecosystem Services

• Native and Hybrid Hazelnuts: A Potential Food and Energy Crop for Minnesota
  • Hazelnut research

• Developing Woody Perennials for Biomass and Ecosystem Services
  • Establishment of riparian alley cropping systems for bioenergy feedstock production

• Managing Grasslands for Biomass and Environmental Services on underutilized Farmland
  • Biofuel production and wildlife conservation in working prairies

• Developing Cover Crops for the Major Cropping Systems of Minnesota
  • Results from a Brassica variety trial in MN and MI

• Developing Forage Grasses and Legumes for Grazing, Forage, and Duel Use Systems

• Commercialization and Enterprise Development of Products Produced in “For Evergreen” Agricultural Systems

Please visit the Forever Green Initiative YouTube channel to learn more about our current research!

Want more information? Visit these great sites:

Midwest Cover Crops Council

National Agroforestry Center

Green Lands Blue Waters

Upper Midwest Hazelnut Development Intitiative