Drought
Among other benefits, the project multiplies the number of available genetic markers that plant breeders can use to improve drought tolerance.
Despite the worst single-year drought ever in the Southern Plains, wheat producers there are hoping for, or perhaps even banking on, more rain.
It’s no secret that wheat is struggling in Oklahoma and Texas.
Cotton production in The Golden State is on a decline for the fourth straight year, as farmers find it increasingly hard to justify growing it amid a multiyear drought.
The corn has grown to only half its normal height on Yan Shuqin’s ranch in the hills of Inner Mongolia this year, as a swath of northern China suffers its worst drought in 60 years.
Recent heavy rainfall has washed away or at least lessened drought conditions in swaths of Nebraska and Iowa, according to a report released Thursday.
Warm temperatures and adequate soil moisture boosted plant populations, according to the Doane Advisory Services Co. crop tour.
Corn rose for a third session as a government report showed U.S. inventories will remain at a 17-year low on increasing use of the grain in livestock feed.
Corn futures rose the most in seven weeks after USDA raised its forecast for animal-feed demand, leaving the inventory estimate at a 17-year low.
While landowners welcome the news, Purdue Extension agricultural economist Craig Dobbins said it should signal caution for potential buyers.