K-State wheat production specialist says that short wheat plants require novel harvesting tactics Drought plaguing parts of Kansas created shorter wheat plants and thinner crop stands this year. In ...

As scouts set out on the 2023 Wheat Quality Council ’s Hard Winter Wheat Tour across Kansas this week, they knew they’d found drought-ravaged fields. But as freeze damage became more apparent in the ...

Sub-freezing temperatures stretched from the Northern to the Southern U.S. last week, and with a lack of snow cover in many of those areas, there are fresh concerns it caused some winter kill damage ...

An official with the Kansas Crop Improvement Association encourages the state’s farmers to look for signs of a wild triticale hybrid found recently in wheat fields. Marion Spiering, the manager of ...

Colorado State University’s Crops Testing Program is hosting the 2025 Wheat Field Days on June 4-6 and June 10. They are made possible by our farmer-cooperators, seed company and industry partners, ...

Kansas wheat farmers are facing a severe outbreak of wheat streak mosaic and Triticum mosaic virus, potentially causing significant crop losses. The viruses, spread by wheat curl mites from volunteer ...

PRATT, Kan. (KAKE) – A farmer in Kansas spent months planning and creating wheat field artwork to celebrate his 20-year anniversary with his wife. Jesse Blasi has been a wheat farmer in Pratt for more ...