Michigan scientists and a whiskey distiller are on a quest to resurrect historical varieties of rye and use them to make ...

Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne ... disadvantages to consider before growing tall fescue grass or planting red fescue grass seed. For one, their fast growth rate means you may need to mow ...

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It grows rapidly and vigorously from seed. Rye tends to be taller thank wheat. This plant is a bunch type grass with many upright tillers. The leaves, like most small grains are rolled in the whorl.

The team retrieved several large tubes with the Bentley rye seeds to take back to Michigan State University to see if Olson could get them to grow. Olson, along with other scientists ...

Instead of terminating it farmers can let the rye continue to grow. Mitch Hora, CEO and Agronomist, Continuum Ag, says, “So you’re getting the real benefit out of that rye and to foster better ...

Eric Olson, a plant breeder at Michigan State University, holds a container full of rye seeds from the James R. Bentley, a schooner that sank in Lake Huron in 1878. Olson and Chad Munger ...

To some, the plan seemed unlikely to succeed. Recovering 146-year-old rye seeds from the frigid depths of Lake Huron and using them to grow a fresh crop seemed like a long shot. But Chad Munger ...