Join us for this year's Ancient Grains Conference on hosted by the Northern Crops Institute! The conference will be held on Tuesday, July 25th, 2023 at the Oliver Kelley Farm in Elk River, MN, and aims to provide an educational and promotional setting to explore the characteristics and utilization of Ancient Grains.

Join us for this year's Ancient Grains Conference on hosted by the Northern Crops Institute! The conference will be held on Tuesday, July 25th, 2023 at the Oliver Kelley Farm in Elk River, MN, and aims to provide an educational and promotional setting to explore the characteristics and utilization of Ancient Grains.

Join us for this year's Ancient Grains Conference on hosted by the Northern Crops Institute! The conference will be held on Tuesday, July 25th, 2023 at the Oliver Kelley Farm in Elk River, MN, and aims to provide an educational and promotional setting to explore the characteristics and utilization of Ancient Grains.

This course will provide information to participants who are looking for hands-on experience in techniques used in barley breeding, utilizing barley and malt quality testing equipment, and grain marketing. Participants of this course will learn from a group of internationally recognized experts, who will give an overview of the factors impacting barley and malt quality from field to brewhouse. Lectures, discussion sessions, participatory laboratory demonstrations, and tours will provide participants with the knowledge to understand malt processing and to effectively interpret barley and malt analyses.

Join the Northern Crops Institute (NCI) for our on-demand “Barley to Beer” course. This course provides participants with information on how to successfully choose high quality malting barley, as well as a basic understanding of the malting process and the brewing of beer, through networked lectures and video tours.

Join Northern Crops Institute (NCI) for Bison Sales Training. This course is designed to improve the performance of younger sales professionals in the ag industry.

Join Northern Crops Institute (NCI) for Bison Sales Training. This course is designed to improve the performance of younger sales professionals in the ag industry.

This five-day course will focus on Dried Distillers grains, or DDGS, which are the most significant coproduct from ethanol production, in both size and value. Daily lectures and tours will be held both in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area as well as at NCI and Barry Hall on the NDSU Campus in Fargo. Academic and industry authorities will guide you through the full complexity of the international DDGS Markets. This course provides an overview of the U.S. DDGS handling and marketing system and discusses the tools available to assist buyers in purchasing U.S. DDGS that meet their quality needs at the best value.

Expand your knowledge of durum with NCI’s “Developing Innovations with Durum” course. This course provides participants with the knowledge on how durum can be beneficial in other facets than just pasta. Developing Innovations with Durum will touch on many unique traits of durum, nutrition components, an overview on procession, as well as sourcing the material.

Participants of the course will enjoy lectures from milling experts, understand how to utilize this product, and will know exactly where they can buy durum flour for cooking and baking.

This course will provide importers, and potential importers, with a better understanding of the entire U.S. corn-ethanol market, resulting in increased confidence and effectiveness of U.S. corn-ethanol purchases.