…calcium in an 8-ounce glass of milk, you would have to eat seven oranges or six slices of wheat bread. Fresh milk will stay fresher longer if you add a…
American Farm Bureau Cautions on Cuba
…ranchers from competing on a level playing field and have closed off one of our nearest ag export markets. Cuba has not purchased any rice or wheat from the U.S….
Wheat Geneticist Presented with Innovator of the Year Award
…world-renowned wheat breeder and wheat geneticist, Dubcovsky’s laboratory has developed a gene capture tool. The result is a public database containing more than 10 million sequenced and carefully catalogued genetic…
USDA Releases Latest WASDE Report
…$8.30 to $10.30 per bushel, and the season-average farm price for wheat is projected at $3.90 to $4.70 per bushel, up five cents from the latest report. USDA will release…
House Ag Committee Underscores Importance of U.S. International Food Aid and Agricultural Development
…including Chairman Conaway’s opening statement and the archived webcast. Witness List: Panel I Mr. Ron Suppes, Wheat Producer, Dighton, KS, on behalf of U.S. Wheat Associates Ms. Margaret Schuler, Senior…
Funding For Commodity Board Projects to Support Ag Industry
…and Kentucky Corn Promotion Council, to improve yield prediction models for next generation breeders. Kansas State University, Manhattan, received an NIFA grant of $980,000, funded jointly by the Kansas Wheat…
Ag Groups Respond to White House Budget Cuts
…up 40 percent of all in-kind food aid and because almost all food aid recipients are wheat-import dependent, particularly in Africa, wheat donations do not distort local markets. It is…
Wheat Industry Looks for New NAFTA Opportunities, But Priority Remains Do No Harm
U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) and the National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG) urge caution as the Trump Administration officially submitted to Congress its notice of intent to renegotiate the North…
$7.4 Million for Research on Food Crops and Animals
…the genes responsible for wheat quality, as well as improve selection strategies that will speed the delivery of superior varieties to wheat farmers. The Cornell University project will use molecular…
USDA Approves Modifications to Margin Protection Plan of Insurance for Crops
…program, margin protection insurance for corn, wheat, rice and soybeans will be available in more states and have updates designed to better clarify the real input costs covered beginning in…
What You Can Grow in a Straw Bale Garden
…choose your straw bale from wheat, oats, barley, alfalfa or rye. You could also find a local farmer who does not use pesticides on his or her crops. And just…
Cargill: Grain Glut to Last
…of crops in storage. Global corn, wheat and soybean inventories have increased over the last four years in the longest stretch of gains since the late 1990s, according to the…
May WASDE Report Mostly Neutral
…at 2.11 bushels, and at 480 million bushels for soybeans. For the nation’s wheat crop, USDA lowered expected production to 1.25 billion bushels, down 25 percent from last year. Those…
Global Food Prices Fall for Third Consecutive Month
…international prices of most cereals, wheat in particular. International rice prices, by contrast, firmed in April, buoyed by a more upbeat pace of sales, especially to Near Eastern buyers. »…