Root Shoot Malting, Mainstem Malt and Carolina Malt House take home a coveted Malt Cup with pale malts seeded by LCS craft barley The Craft Maltsters Guild presented its inaugural Malt Cup awards last month to three malt houses that exemplify the highest standards of quality and craftsmanship in malting. In a field [...]
Balanced LCS hard red spring wheat selected as a 2019 western quality check variety The Wheat Quality Council has added LCS Rebel to its list of hard red spring quality checks — varieties that set the bar for end-use quality across the country. LCS Rebel was named a western quality check for 2019, [...]
Gazing out the conference room window I sit quietly in awe at the expansive view. East of the Île de la Cité, West of the Eiffel Tower and to the South, the sun glimmering on top of the Seine catches my eye. As I study the light reflecting across the water, adding contrast to [...]
Last November at the Tri-State Grain Growers convention, we had the first conversation about combining efforts with a few different organizations to host a large field day in N. Idaho. Like the beginning of many great ideas, this one started in the Hospitality Suite after a few Pendleton's with our friends from the University of Idaho [...]
Richard Seck & LCS Mint hit it Big! The Kansas State Fair is always fun, but this year it was amazing! Because one of our Limagrain varieties was a winner, I was invited to attend the awards ceremony for the Kansas Wheat Yield Contest, held during the Kansas State fair. This is one [...]
Hard red spring wheats deliver yield, protein and straw strengthDemand for Limagrain Cereal Seeds (LCS) wheat seed is at an all-time high in the Northern Plains. LCS varieties excelled at test sites across the region in 2017, and sales are flourishing for spring planting.Hard red spring wheat LCS Rebel made its debut this growing season [...]
It’s that time of the year when winter wheat growers are once again thinking about moisture: is there enough to justify applying a shot of nitrogen, or, perhaps you’re in an area where you’re waiting on just a little moisture to make that application. Regardless, it’s also the time of year when the major [...]
LCS Announces New Technologies For the second straight year, Mother Nature did her best to disrupt our Central Plains field day. And for the second straight year – she just couldn’t get the job done. We ended up having the most successful event ever! However, the evening before the event, LCS staff were [...]
In the past year, LCS has had an opportunity to begin building a relationship with the North American Craft Maltsters Guild (CMG) as an associate member of their organization. The CMG was created to promote and educate the general public about the tradition of craft malting in North America – while providing valuable resources [...]
For two weeks in January I left Wichita, KS to travel to France and England for meetings. I would be attending the Limagrain Worldwide Marker Meetings in Clermont-Ferrand, France and the Limagrain Wheat Breeder’s meeting the following week in Docking, England. My journey would start in Wichita trying to escape a predicted apocalyptic [...]
