{"id":1281,"date":"2011-09-26T12:28:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T19:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2011-09-26T12:28:51","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T19:28:51","slug":"oregon-states-sustainably-grown-grains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2011\/09\/26\/oregon-states-sustainably-grown-grains\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon State&#039;s Sustainably Grown Grains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1287\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2011\/09\/0761-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"organic barley harvest\" width=\"270\" height=\"196\" \/>Fruits and vegetables grown using organic methods are quite common, especially in Oregon. Every day, consumer demand dictates that more and more produce is grown in sustainable ways.  This includes grains, and research being done in Oregon State\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/cropandsoil.oregonstate.edu\/\">Crop Science program<\/a> is part of a national trend to assess and implement alternative grain production practices. Natalie Graham, a graduate student in <a href=\"http:\/\/cropandsoil.oregonstate.edu\/people\/Hayes-Patrick\">Pat Hayes\u2019 lab<\/a>, wants to bring organic production methods to growing barley, the grain commonly used in beer brewing, baking and as animal feed.<\/p>\n<p>In the last year, Graham\u2019s team planted a variety of barley called Maja at the Lewis-Brown Horticultural Research Farm.  They used completely organic methods for the trial, and recent harvest has shown a greater yield than expected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor so long, whenever there would be a problem in the field, the answer would be \u2018add a chemical.\u2019 We\u2019re now proving that\u2019s not always the answer,\u201d said Graham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fruits and vegetables grown using organic methods are quite common, especially in Oregon. Every day, consumer demand dictates that more and more produce is grown in sustainable ways. This includes grains, and research being done in Oregon State\u2019s Crop Science program is part of a national trend to assess and implement alternative grain production practices. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1292100],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}