Amid a punishing drought, tariffs and the high cost of fertilizers, farming wheat has become more uncertain as farmers in ...

Intensive agriculture poses a significant threat to global biodiversity. However, one aspect of biodiversity in farmland is ...

Hidden algae communities beneath farms may play a major role in soil health, water retention, and natural nitrogen cycling, ...

The rhythm of wheat harvest is a symbolic sight during the summer months. This year, the sounds of harvest are rather quiet in some of the biggest wheat producing areas of the country, as extreme ...

WICHITA, Kansas (Reuters) - Farmers in Kansas, the biggest U.S. producer of wheat used to make bread, are abandoning their crops after a severe drought and damaging cold ravaged farms. They are ...

K-State wheat production specialist says that short wheat plants require novel harvesting tactics Drought plaguing parts of Kansas created shorter wheat plants and thinner crop stands this year. In ...

As scouts set out on the 2023 Wheat Quality Council ’s Hard Winter Wheat Tour across Kansas this week, they knew they’d found drought-ravaged fields. But as freeze damage became more apparent in the ...

Southwestern North Dakota—We’ve been on the road for three months harvesting wheat. It’s now Aug. 14 and in another month or less we’ll be done with wheat and then fall crops will be next. However, I ...

Kansas wheat farmers are facing a severe outbreak of wheat streak mosaic and Triticum mosaic virus, potentially causing significant crop losses. The viruses, spread by wheat curl mites from volunteer ...

BEAUFORT COUNTY, N.C. (WITN) - Farmer Wynn Parkinson was inspecting his wheat field when he noticed an unusual yellow patch in the center of his field. “My first thought was to get in touch with ...