Planting in neat rows makes cultivation and harvesting easier, making it the recommended method. Space rows four to ten ...

One day, amber waves of grain may grow where few other plants dare to put down roots. The final deadline for Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech Awards is Friday, June 20, at 11:59 p.m. PT ...

In an advance for agriculture, a new study reveals how wheat plants actively influence the microbial communities living on and inside their roots—and how these root microbiomes change over time ...

The spike contains wheat berries, anywhere from 20 to 100 berries per plant. Each wheat berry has three parts: the bran, endosperm, and the germ. The bran is the skin on the outside of the wheat ...

Tyler Lang might be a little busier than usual the next few months. The Sterling, N.D., seed salesman handles crops such as barley, oats and field peas, and his product line has extra appeal going ...

Those wheat plants are sick. They have a disease called wheat leaf rust. Wheat leaf rust is caused by a fungus, and like many fungi, ... Create your graph paper by drawing concentric circles with ...

Across Canada's prairie provinces, farmers in Saskatchewan expect seeding of wheat to be little changed from 2024 at 14.2 million acres, while in Alberta farmers expect to plant 6.6% more wheat in ...

SAO PAULO, July 14 (Reuters) - Brazil's largest biofuel producer BSBios will build the country's first big facility that uses wheat to make ethanol, which will increase, not diminish, food ...

Tractors of 50-horsepower would be allotted through a transparent draw to farmers cultivating wheat on more than 12.5 acres, he said and added that the balloting ceremony would be held under the ...

The James Cook sample is a wild wheat plant. It looks spindly and grass-like - quite different from the varieties growing in fields today. But it's these differences that the team is interested in.

Gary Millershaski, a farmer and scout on the Wheat Quality Council's Kansas wheat tour, inspects winter wheat stunted by drought near Syracuse, Kansas, U.S., May 18, 2022. Picture taken May 18, 2022.