Kernza is one of several perennial grains under development at The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas, about an hours drive north of Muellers farm.

A handful of U.S. farmers are looking at a new solution to extreme weather. Perennial grains may better withstand extreme drought like the one earlier this year that devastated…

A handful of U.S. farmers are looking at perennial grains as a solution to extreme weather such as drought, which devastated some wheat farmers in Kansas earlier this year.…