COLUMBIA, Mo. — With forage in short supply due to drought, some livestock producers are looking at wheat straw as feed despite its poor nutrient quality.
- Nat Williams
BELLEVILLE, Ill. — Late but great? Maybe.
- Nat Williams
Like a struggling marathon runner who gets a second wind, wheat has gotten new life in Illinois.
- Benjamin Herrold
As the busy season continues, farmers in Missouri are looking to get the winter wheat crop planted as harvest progress and weather conditions allow.
- Nat Williams
There are a lot of smiles in Illinois’ Wheat Belt this year. Near-ideal conditions boosted yields and improved quality of the crop, most of which has been harvested.
- Phyllis Coulter
Getting soybeans planted before July 4 is one of the keys to success in making double-crop wheat and soybeans profitable.
- Nat Williams
BELLEVILLE, Ill. — The Illinois wheat crop has excellent potential this year if estimates hold up.
- Nat Williams
Double-crop wheat may be creeping northward in Illinois and the rest of the Midwest.
- Aaron Viner
It’s a different landscape for commodity groups in 2021 compared to a year ago. A new presidential administration and many new lawmakers on Capitol Hill have shifted some focus onto new issues, particularly in regards to the climate.
- Nat Williams
“Plant in the dust and your bins will bust,” the old-timers would say. Wheat growers in Illinois are getting the opportunity to test the veracity of that adage.
Wheat harvest marks the end of one cropping cycle and the beginning of a second. In parts of central and southern Illinois, farmers frequently opt to plant double-crop soybean following wheat harvest, with hopes that the first “killing” frost will be late enough to allow the soybean to reach…
- Nat Williams
Early reports following the Illinois wheat harvest hint at a good but smallish crop.
- Benjamin Herrold
Wheat acreage was down in Missouri this year, although some of the wheat fields did produce decent yields in 2020, despite some scab concerns.
- Aaron Viner
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — With a presidential election in November, Chandler Goule said it’s going to be a year of likely gridlock in Congress.
- By Isis Almeida and Michael Hirtzer, Bloomberg News
In the agriculture world, news of the partial U.S.-China trade deal has sparked a lot of buzz about soybeans. It turns out, wheat could actually end up being a bigger surprise winner.
- Benjamin Herrold
After an extremely wet spring, much of Missouri’s wheat crop still turned out better than expected, even if it was not a bumper crop.
- Benjamin Herrold
BUNCETON, Mo. — A light breeze drifted across a waving wheat field on David Brumback’s Cooper County farm. Wheat growers, University of Missouri Extension personnel and seed dealers had gathered for their 12th annual wheat field day.
- Nat Williams
BELLEVILLE, Ill. — Not surprisingly, participants in an annual Illinois wheat tour came up with a relatively low yield estimate. Surprisingly, they didn’t see a lot of disease.
MANHATTAN, Kan. — A Kansas State University wheat expert says that yellowing in some Kansas wheat fields is not uncommon for this time of year, but growers should be aware of steps they should be taking if they are seeing the condition.
Wheat is resilient and can recover. However, the extremes this season along with the lateness of the crop are enough to have generated numerous questions about wheat stand potential.
- Benjamin Herrold
Missouri is looking at a smaller winter wheat crop this year, partly due to economics and party due to conditions last fall.
- Nat Williams
MT. VERNON, Ill. — For farmers in southern Illinois, double-crop wheat and soybeans may be the best route to prosperity.
- Nat Williams
MT. VERNON, Ill. — If wheat growers want good quality, shoot for high yields.
- By Shruti Date Singh, Bloomberg News
One of the wettest Octobers on record in Kansas, the largest U.S. wheat producer, may lead farmers to plant fewer acres with the grain than expected.
- By Jen Skerritt, Bloomberg News
Mike Ammeter barely received a drop of rain on his Alberta farm all summer. Now, wet and snowy weather has kept him from harvesting his crops for five weeks.
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