The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as of Sunday, June 5, reported spring wheat planting at 82% complete, 15-points below the 5-year average of 97% and below analysts’ expectations of 86%.

Stripe rust has made an appearance in the Palouse region with winter wheat ranging from Feekes 7 to Feekes 10 and spring wheat ranging from Feekes 2 and Feekes 5.

Idaho’s water supply outlook keeps improving but remains tight in some isolated areas.

Legislation to cut red tape and support the development of innovative tech to grow more resistant, more nutritious, and more productive crops will be introduced in Parliament today (Wednesday 25 May).

Operators who are always keeping the next season, plan or operation in mind tend to have more family time and work-life balance than those who don’t.

On the upper floors of Throckmorton Hall at Kansas State University, a nondescript gray cabinetand set of freezers hold a collection of spores gathered from across the world to help Kansas wheat producers better manage common bunt.

In his 29 years in the grain industry, Kurt Haarmann, senior vice president of grain, for Portland, Oregon, US-based Columbia Grain, said he’d never used the phrase, “I’ve never seen this before,” until this spring, when war broke out between Russia and Ukraine, severely limiting grain shipments from the Black Sea region.