Wheat

Eric Brammeier looks at crops from two perspectives. The first is as a farmer. Brammeier farms his family farm with his wife, Kim.

Over 50% of the food calories eaten daily by the world’s 7.9 billion people come directly from grains. In impoverished nations, that percentage is 60% and, in the poorest, it tops 80%.

Purdue University researchers have improved upon traditional solar energy structures used in agrivoltaic farming.

Winter wheat acreage is up in Illinois and Indiana and farmers are checking their fields for yield-robbing diseases.

The USDA’s most recent World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report confirmed that a freight train of grain is barreling toward 2023-2024 markets and farmers everywhere need to prepare for the rockier prices sure to follow in its wake.

USDA analysts forecast record soybean production worldwide of nearly 410.6 million tons, up nearly 11% from last year. If realized, this would be the largest year-over-year production increase in nearly two decades.

A grassy lane rutted with tire tracks leads to Volodymyr Zaiets’ farm in southern Ukraine. He is careful, driving only within those shallow grooves — veering away might cost him his life in the field dotted with explosive mines.

The United Nations food agency is warning that a widespread locust infestation in several Afghan provinces is of “huge concern” and could possibly decimate a quarter of the wheat crop.

With the spread of yield-robbing diseases like tar spot and frogeye leaf spot throughout the United States, fungicide applications have grown increasingly popular and crucial to protect yield potential.

One of the oldest sayings on Wall Street is “sell in May and walk away.” The old adage is based on what the Stock Trader’s Almanac claims is the best six months of the year — namely, November through April.

Despite the urging from her high school ag teacher, becoming an ag instructor was not in Miranda Buss’s career plans.

Agricultural conditions were reported to be stable to strong across the Corn Belt, according a survey of Federal Reserve districts.

Indiana Farm Bureau members celebrated Earth Day, acknowledging the importance of land and the measures farmers take to protect it.

I started to graze the cereal rye that is in the field that will be planted into beans this year on April 15. We had a lot of planters planting on April 13 and 14 and I was wondering if I should be planting beans or grazing the cover crop.

South American corn and soybean production was among the trade’s primary focus when the typically quiet April estimates report was released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.