Hey guys, it's Anne. Quick question. What did you have for breakfast today? I had raisin brand.

Steve Paulson, I think he had corn checks. Joe Hartke is a Rice Krispies guy. So those grains have been an essential part of human diets for millennia.

Long before breakfast cereal came in a box.

And today, we're going to make the case for bringing back

some of the ancient versions of those grains

and talk about why saving seeds could save us.

So keep listening.

Wisconsin Public Radio.

It's to the best of our knowledge.

I'm Anstrand Champs.

Bob Quinn comes from three generations of Montana wheat farmers.

So he always assumed he'd be growing wheat too someday.

But when he was 16, a chance encounter with a stranger at a county fair set him on a different path.

Well, I was at the county fair in Fort Bend, which is our county seat,

just 30 to 40 miles from our ranch.

I'd leave walking around and munching on peanuts, I suppose.

This old fellow motioned be over and he said, munching on peanuts, I suppose.

This old fellow motioned me over and he said, Hey, sunny, he said, would you like some of King Tut's sweet?

I said, wow, sure.

And so he poured this giant grain right in my hand. I didn't think really much about it until I was in college at UC Davis about

14 years later finishing a graduate program.

And I was eating a package of corn nuts one day and it said it was made from a giant corn.

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