Wheat Industry News
Recent news and highlights from around the U.S. wheat industry. Speaking of Wheat. “It was just an excellent wheat crop. On our farm, we had the best wheat … we’ve ever had. It was a challenging harvest, between the [rain] showers, but the quality held up and our test weight stayed above 58. The genetics […]
Wheat Industry News
Recent news and highlights from around the U.S. wheat industry. Speaking of Wheat. “We know what the [world] population is expected to grow to, and … they are … going to eat more so we need to improve our grain yield by 1.4% to 1.7% annually. And currently in the Great Plains, the breadbasket of […]
Wheat Industry News
Recent news and highlights from around the U.S. wheat industry. Speaking of Wheat. “I don’t think anybody is expecting to see anything that is above average, for certain. Average would be ambitious. We’re probably looking at below-average overall. As an industry, agriculture has a huge ripple effect down the supply chain. You need to have […]
Wheat Industry News
Recent news and highlights from around the U.S. wheat industry. Speaking of Wheat. “Jumping from colder than usual temperatures to high heat, crop conditions are unlikely to stay this favorable for long, especially if drought conditions worsen. These weather shocks are likely to impact estimates for crop supply in the 2021/22 marketing year as demand […]
Wheat Industry News
Recent news and highlights from around the U.S. wheat industry. Speaking of Wheat. “The drought monitor has been around for more than two decades, and we have only seen four springs where we’ve seen more than 40% drought coverage in the lower 48 states. For the record, those years were 2000, 2003, and then in […]
Wheat Industry News
Recent news and highlights from around the U.S. wheat industry. Speaking of Wheat. “[A new genetic discovery] will make a big difference for producers, because it will result in our Wheat Improvement Team releasing varieties that are better adapted to their production system.” – Amanda de Oliveira Silva, Oklahoma State University Extension Small Grains Specialist, […]
Wheat Industry News
Recent news and highlights from around the U.S. wheat industry. Speaking of Wheat. “Well over half the nation’s wheat production occurs in states that are experiencing some form of drought now in the spring of 2021 … I suspect we will still see rough correlation between corn prices and hard red winter wheat prices this […]
Wheat Industry News
Recent news and highlights from around the U.S. wheat industry. Speaking of Wheat. “We have seen only a half-inch of rain in the last 45 days. We are in a critical stage, but we have time to recover if rain comes in the next ten days. Either way, we will have a crop.” — Michael Peters, […]
Wheat Industry News
Recent news and highlights from around the U.S. wheat industry. Speaking of Wheat. “The research is really there to show that sprouting grain, unfortunately, has bad end-use quality, generally. If we use the ELISA [test for starch damage] … our confidence in the predicted end-use quality goes up. I think that’s the advantage of that […]
Wheat Industry News
Recent news and highlights from around the U.S. wheat industry. Speaking of Wheat “In wheat, I think there is a purity … we’re reaching back into genetics that are historic … into wild relatives and bringing some of those characteristics … There’s just this natural quality to it. We’re bringing healthy, nutritious food to the […]
