Latest News From Wheat

There are plenty of tools at a grower’s disposal, and Farm Journal’s wheat agronomist uses his handheld GreenSeeker on the farm.

Northern Plains farmers harvest before kernels can fully form.

The spring wheat harvest has gotten underway in South Dakota as the winter wheat and oats harvests progress.

Downpours in EU’s No. 2 wheat grower may curb protein content.

One of the contributing factors to our alfalfa stand losses is a root rot called Aphanomyces race 2. The prolonged wet conditions allowed this root disease to finish off already-weakened alfalfa crowns.

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Harvest slowed for some by cool and wet conditions.

Winter wheat harvest is ongoing across the country. Despite USDA saying 28 percent of the crop out of the top 18 producing states is out of the ground, winter wheat harvest is moving across the High Plains.

As wheat harvest gets closer by the day, now is a good time to take measurements for your records, including counting population.

Some farms may start wheat harvest 10 days later than normal.

Concern from neighboring wheat farmers about weeds spreading from an organic farm are forcing management changes.

Cheapest wheat offer was for Romanian wheat, followed by U.S.

The wheat crop in Colorado is on average between Feekes growth stage 8-10 (flag leaf to boot stage). As I mentioned in my last message, during the last two weeks the weather has been conducive for the development of str

Shipment shows competitiveness of U.S. wheat, analyst says.

When Jack Shoup refused to pay late fees to the Iowa Soybean Association on tardy checkoff payments as the first purchaser of grain at Dinsdale Elevator, he drew a straight line in his Reinbeck dirt and prepared for a legal battle.

A recent late-spring blizzard could prove to be disastrous for farmers in far western Kansas.

Ohio farmers are following a national trend by planting the fewest acres of wheat in state history but are expected to plant a record amount of soybeans this year.

Unharvested acres must come off field before spring planting.

Wheat growers have had a rough go the last couple of years with low prices and the least amount of acres planted in nearly a century.

Wheat imports estimated to be 4.1 million tons in 2016-17.  

Wheat stockpiles seen plunging 37 percent this season.

First came a deluge of rain, then a string of winter blizzards. Now, April showers are threatening to heap further moisture on waterlogged fields just as Canada’s farmers prepare to plant their fields this spring.

Find out what you need to know about the data, the market's reaction, and what you need to do after USDA's release of the March 31 Prospective Plantings and quarterly Grain Stocks reports.  

For more than two decades, Commodity Classic has helped set the stage for the growing season. Farmers and presenters from across the country pour into one place with one goal in mind—to get ready for 2017. As attendance has grown, so has the event’s influence. 

New chemical spray boosts wheat yield and grain size

With farmer and regulator eyes turned toward the two companies, Bayer and Monsanto technology leads on Thursday repeated their confidence the merger will close by the end of 2017. The companies need approval from regulatory authorities in 30 countries.

Wheat exports seem to be robust despite record world wheat supplies and a relatively strong dollar, according to the USDA.

Since 2005, Swedish-backed Black Earth Farming has emerged as a major landowner in southwest Russia, holding more than 600,000 acres (244,000 hectares) as of 2015. But yesterday, the company announced it has entered into an agreement to sell its Russian operations, distribute the proceeds to its shareholders, and initiate a voluntary liquidation of the company.

Global wheat stocks have been dwindling due to a worse than expected Indian crop and an “off” Ukranian crop, according to Jim Bower of Bower Trading on Market Rally Radio. 

“If it gets too cold, too fast, especially if there’s not time for the crop to re-acclimate, it can cause some damage,” said Romulo Lollato, a wheat and forage specialist at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas.

Grain markets yawned Thursday after the release of the latest supply and demand report from the USDA.

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The planted acreage for winter wheat in the U.S. fell to the lowest level since 1909 as farmers from Kansas to Texas faced prospects for declining crop prices, a government report showed. Futures prices climbed in Chicago.  

Growers need help because citrus greening has infected more than 80 percent of Florida's citrus trees, according to a recent UF/IFAS survey of growers. Although these two new early Valencias are not resistant to g

So far, favorable South American weather forecasts support estimates of increased crop production in Brazil and Argentina. As a result, some analysts are betting on bigger U.S. ending stocks.

Brazil ‘s government grain agency CONAB raised its estimates Tuesday for record bumper crops of soybeans and grains.  

Glut has spurred longest slump in decade as growers lose money.

Platte River Equity has acquired Tiger-Sul Products, a global leader in sulphur fertilizers and crop performance products, in partnership with existing management. Tiger-Sul was acquired from H.J.

In 2016, wheat farmers have seen ugly circumstances, now they’re trying to help the problem by reducing acreage. 

It’s going to be c-c-c-cold in the Plains and Midwest this weekend. Kait Parker, meteorologist with The Weather Channel, has already been tracking dangerous wind chills as of Thursday, with more expected on the way. Find out which areas are at risk for wheat winterkill if they don't get adequate snow accumulations ahead of the tumbling temperatures.