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Albert Lea Seed pledges $125,000 for Winter Rye & Winter Barley Research at the University of Minnesota

by Matt Leavitt, agronomist and organic team lead; and Mac Ehrhardt, president and co-owner Albert Lea Seed is proud to support two crucial research programs at the University of Minnesota’s College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences: Dr. Jochum Wiersma’s Winter Rye research program, and Dr. Kevin Smith’s Winter Barley breeding program. Why do […]

January 12, 2022 | Categories: Announcements, barley, hybrid rye, Rye, small grains Read More >>

University of Minnesota Researchers Release First-Ever Winter Barley Variety

MN-Equinox will be available for growers to plant in Fall of 2022 through Albert Lea Seed by University of Minnesota Media Contact: Constance Carlson, UMN Forever Green, 612.709.6790 St. Paul, MN — Researchers from the Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics at University of Minnesota announce the release of a new six-row winter barley variety […]

December 2, 2021 | Categories: Announcements, barley, Cover Crops, small grains Read More >>

Virtual Conference Videos Now Available: Forage Day & Small Grains Day

Albert Lea Seed hosted two 2021 Virtual Conference Days: Forages Day and Small Grains Day. The videos of each of those sessions is now available on the Albert Lea Seed Youtube channel, or you can simply view them in this post. Happy learning! Forages Day Optimizing Animal Use of Summer Annuals Presented by Mary Drewnowski, […]

February 8, 2021 | Categories: Alfalfa, Annual Conference, barley, Cover Crops, Forages, hybrid rye, Oats, Organic, Rye, small grains Read More >>

New Winter Grains Catalog Now Available

Our catalog of fall-planted small grains will be hitting mailboxes in mid-July, but you can peruse the catalog online right now! It includes our 2021 lineup for winter rye, hybrid rye, winter barley, winter wheat, and winter triticale. View the catalog below, or you can download it as a PDF here, too.

June 30, 2020 | Categories: Announcements, barley, hybrid rye, Organic, Rye, small grains Read More >>

Why Albert Lea Seed is pledging $60,000 for Winter Barley Research

by Mac Ehrhardt • President, Co-Owner of Albert Lea Seed Albert Lea Seed is proud to announce that we are pledging $60,000 to support Dr. Kevin Smith’s Winter Barley project at the University of Minnesota. We believe that farmers throughout the Upper Midwest will benefit from the winter-hardy winter barley varieties he is breeding. Our […]

March 4, 2020 | Categories: barley, small grains Read More >>