Wheat

Through the 1.5¢/bu. Kansas wheat checkoff, nearly $1.3 million in wheat research is conducted each year, including much through the Kansas State University plant pathology department. In the field of plant pathology, researchers develop disease resistance, identify disease-resistant lines of wheat and provide disease-resistance ratings of new and existing varieties....More

After a year of drought, southern plains growers are eager to get their 2012 crop off and running into the winter. But while Oklahoma’s wheat is rated 42% good to excellent, only 21% of the Texas crop is in that category, according to yesterday’s USDA crop progress report....More

As the fall wheat planting season approaches, Herb Ohm, a Purdue research agronomist, says growers can increase their chances for a successful winter wheat crop by properly preparing seed beds and selecting high-quality seed....More

With 2011 going into the record books as one of the driest in the southern High Plains, many dryland wheat acres were abandoned and irrigated yields suffered as producers had to allocate water to other crops, says Texas AgriLife Extension Service Agronomist Brent Bean....More

From 85-bu. yields in Ohio to zero in many Texas fields, the winter wheat crop has run the gambit. Some farmers are smiling and at times too wet. Many others are smoldering in the worst drought in more than 50 years. It’s a year they’d just as soon see in the rear view mirror....More