Keeping Crop Research Close to Home

When a barley breeder spends more than a decade developing a new variety, it’s easy to assume the work begins in a greenhouse or a laboratory. In reality, it often starts with a conversation in a field.A producer wants stronger standability. Better disease resistance. Improved forage quality. Higher yields in a dry year. Those challenges become the questions researchers spend years trying to answer.That’s the thinking shaping the next chapter at Western Crop Innovations (WCI), where