Some of 2022’s volatility is gone, but low carryover of wheat stocks and uncertainties are expected to keep prices relatively high as farmers enter the new year. That was the prediction Wednesday from Norm Ruhoff, a clinical assistant professor at the University of Idaho.

The 2023 Direct Seed Workshop will feature podcaster and Twitter personality Peter Johnson, "Wheat Pete" from Canada. Join us as we chat about harvest timing, residue spread, risk management and marketing strategies for producers. Register early and save!

The Idaho Wheat Commission (IWC) takes a wheat variety survey twice a year, spring and winter, to gather data on variety usage.

Idaho is ranked 5th in the nation for its high suicide rate. Throughout the state of Idaho, suicide is the:

USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) funds public research to address high-priority threats to crop production. An important example is research at the University of Idaho to manage a newly invasive cereal aphid pest, M. festucae cerealium. Knowledge of the cereal aphid and its genetic diversity is lacking, but essential to develop effective strategies for control, including economic thresholds, resistances to pesticides, and ability to transmit virus diseases.

Wheat Septoria, the fungus Zumoseptoria tritici, is one of the most damaging, rapidly evolving threats to wheat production. The disease is endemic to areas of western Europe and the Willamette Valley of Oregon. New research led by Rothemsted University has identified a set of essential genes and proteins that are in common across 18 different strains of the disease.

New research has identified genes for ‘non-target site herbicide resistance’ (NTSR) as contributing to higher levels of herbicide resistance in weeds. Herbicides are inherently designed at a specific target in plants. Resistance generally occurs when there is a specific mutation that impacts or changes that site.