AURI Connects: Fields of Innovation is a platform focused on convening Minnesota’s regional ag and food value chains to build capacity and successfully accelerate the commercialization of new crop and livestock opportunities, including new traits for existing crops. With its focus on connecting innovation and market development with value chain partners, Fields of Innovation aims to build a strong ecosystem in Minnesota and border states that will provide ag producers and value chain partners with new market opportunities.
Upcoming Events
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Innovator Profiles
- Artisan Naan Bakery
- Beaver Island Brewing
- NETZRO
- Fresha
- The American Hazelnut Company
- Hemp Acres
- Perennial Pantry
- Mississippi Topsoils
- Clayton Farms
- The Meatery
- Smude’s Sunflower Oil
- The Good Acre
Alfalfa
- Growing Potential: New Markets & Opportunities for Alfalfa Production (webinar)
- Development of Value-Added Processes and Products for Profitable Alfalfa Marketing— Report (2022)
Camelina and Pennycress
- Solar Farm to Table
- Alternative Crops Could Offer Overlapping Opportunity
- AURI Offers Cold Press Solutions to Entrepreneurs
- Camelina Protein
- Growing Markets for Winter Oilseeds: Camelina and Pennycress (Webinar)
- Pennycress Protein
- Winter Annual Oilseeds: Virtual Field Day #1 (Recording)
- Winter Annual Oilseeds: Virtual Field Day #2 (Recording)
- Winter Annual Oilseeds: Virtual Field Day #3 (Recording)
- Winter Camelina Supply Chain Development in Minnesota— Report (2023)
Controlled Environment Agriculture
- Growing Indoors: The Future of Controlled Environment Agriculture in Minnesota, pt. 1 (Webinar)
- Growing Indoors: The Future of Controlled Environment Agriculture in Minnesota, pt. 2 (Webinar)
Ecosystem Services Markets
Hemp
- AURI Publishes Report on Growing Hemp Industry
- Building an Industrial Hemp Industry in Minnesota Forum
- Building an Industrial Hemp Industry in Minnesota (Webinar)
- Hemp Protein
Innovations
- Breeding Wheat That’s Easier to Eat: New Future for an Old Crop (Webinar)
- Fields of Innovation: Commercializing New Ag Opportunities (Webinar – Food | Ag | Ideas Week)
- The Future of Farmer-Focused Ag Technologies (Webinar)
- Into the Field: Developing Minnesota’s Future Ag Innovators (Webinar)
- The Plant-Based Opportunity for U.S. Agriculture (Webinar)
- Diving Beneath the Surface of Minnesota’s Aquaculture Industry (Webinar)
- Growing & Developing Markets for Minnesota Oilseeds
Kernza
- Brewing with Kernza® Perennial Grain
- Exploring Market Opportunities for Kernza® Perennial Grain (Webinar)
- Food Ag Ideas Week Brought Technology, Innovation and Dynamic Speakers Together
- Kernza® Perennial Grain as a Cereal Grain
- Kernza® Perennial Grain: Cleaning & Dehulling Process
- Kernza® Perennial Grain in Baking Applications
- Kernza® Perennial Grain Value Chain Development in Central Minnesota— Report (August 2022)
- Kernza® Perennial Grain: Building Sustainable Supply Chains, Enhancing Value-Added Uses, and Assessing Post-Harvest Handling Practices— Report (August 2024)
- Kernza® Perennial Grain: Value-Added Uses for Malting, Brewing, and Distilling (October 2024)
