A team of international scientists has discovered how to make wheat plants drought-resistant to survive harsh conditions. Wheat production has been significantly impacted by water stress, as ...

Knowing the four components of wheat yield and how to “crunch” the numbers can be a factor for farmers looking to increase ...

The International Centre for Agriculture Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), in partnership with National Agricultural ...

Successfully growing wheat encouraged prehistoric humans to take up farming, changing the way they had lived for millions of years. They began to settle down in one place, clear and plough fields, sow ...

Wheat is one of the very few grains Brazil imports ... the bacteria captures the nitrogen and delivers it to the soy plant. This significantly reduces the need to employ chemical fertilizer ...

Unless they’re still waiting on winter wheat, most wheat growers know their 2024 yields. But do they know what components ...

Here are five homegrown foods that might struggle to make it to our supermarket shelves—and how we can keep on growing them. Wheat: 155 gallons of water per pound (1,300 liters per kilogram ...

Farm survey points to slight increase in US winter wheat seeded area, among which non-traditional state Montana increases and ...

Winter wheat planting season is underway, but with drought still lingering in parts of wheat country what will that mean for acreage this fall? While the moisture situation has improved in some ...

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