Of my five children, Jacob is the one who shows a deep-down interest in agriculture. He’s 11 right now, and happily takes exclusive care of our flock of laying hens. He also carefully watches the herd ...

Under the warm August sun, the wiry, lushly bearded farmer moves at a slow walk through the field, swinging his scythe in a steady rhythm, the tawny stalks of wheat falling to one side in neat rows.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Even with cool temperatures and recent rainfall, a Purdue University agronomist said that Indiana growers can plant wheat until the end of October. "Actually, right now southern ...

The relationship between winter wheat planting dates and grain yields can be characterized by a bell curve, according to K-State wheat production specialist Romulo Lollato. Seeding should occur at the ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Now that corn and soybean harvest are well underway, some Indiana farmers also should be thinking about planting their winter wheat crops, says a Purdue Extension wheat ...

Ray Wetzel is planting winter wheat like many other Kansas farmers, but unlike most of them, he’s sitting atop a 70-year-old machine and smelling the dirt as he moves along. Planting wheat with a 1953 ...

UC Davis researchers engineered wheat that encourages soil bacteria to convert atmospheric nitrogen into plant-usable ...

Although late summer precipitation has generally been better this year than last year, there are areas in western Nebraska that still have very dry surface soil conditions. With the optimum wheat ...

Wheat - which has long been losing ground, literally, to corn and soybeans - will stage a small comeback this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts. Both U.S. and Upper Midwest farmers ...