wheat

Wheat is one of the world’s staple foods and a big crop on the Great Plains, but it has been left in the dust. A corn farmer can grow 44 percent more…

Monsanto has agreed to settle some of the lawsuits brought by U.S. farmers who allege they lost money when an Oregon field was discovered to have been…

Much of the Midwest and the Plains have been battling drought for years. And the current winter wheat crop looks like it will be one of the worst in…

Federal regulators Tuesday gave the final go-ahead for two of the country’s largest flour milling companies to merge.Food giants ConAgra and Cargill said…

In parts of Kansas, forecasts of biting cold temperatures with lows five or ten degrees below zero has farmers worried about the wheat crop that’s in the…

Fall is planting time for wheat across the Great Plains and this year’s crop went into the ground while big changes were underway in the wheat market.…

Farmers work at the mercy of three big forces that are largely outside their control, the weather, the markets, and the government.In many parts of the…

Many farmers say they would like to grow genetically engineered wheat to help them feed a hungry world, but it’s not what everyone’s hungry for. And now,…