Throughout the ages, farmers have planted seed saved from their previous wheat crop. When making seed wheat decisions, they selected the best quality seed from the highest yielding varieties. Choosing ...

Kansas is an important “breadbasket” state because of its massive wheat production, but in recent years that’s been changing. With poor profits and drier climates, wheat has been harder to manage. New ...

The precautionary principle – the ethical equivalent of the common sense notion that it’s ‘better to be safe than sorry’ – means that when some economic or policy change may endanger the public, ...

MANHATTAN, Kansas, March 25 (Reuters) - Inside a locked chamber the size of a walk-in freezer in Manhattan, Kansas, a ⁠few ⁠dozen wheat plants growing under bright LED lights are being genetically ...

SEED Co Limited has expanded its pipeline of climate-smart maize and wheat seed varieties with higher yield potential to help farmers prepare for a forecasted El Niño-affected 2026/27 season after ...

Harry returns to his wheat fields as spring begins, applying the first nitrogen fertilizer dose after months of heavy winter rain and assessing how the crop has handled the difficult conditions.

A sweltering heat wave decimated Pritam Singh’s wheat crop in 2022. That year, temperatures reached a record-breaking 127 degrees Fahrenheit in Haryana, India, where Singh operates a 35-acre farm. The ...

Jing Pengfei (middle) and two farmers check on the growth of wheat in Yuncheng, Shanxi, on June 11. ZHU XINGXIN/CHINA DAILY ...