Kansas is an important “breadbasket” state because of its massive wheat production, but in recent years that’s been changing. With poor profits and drier climates, wheat has been harder to manage. New ...

Success has been an elusive achievement for technology providers wanting to develop hybrid non-GMO wheat products for U.S. farmers. Corteva is the latest company to announce its intention to develop ...

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 ...

Wheat growers in Nebraska often wonder if hybrid wheat could lead to increased yield and new beneficial traits like those seen in corn or sorghum hybrids. Recently, hybrid wheat research has seen ...

BASEL, Switzerland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wheat is the world’s most genetically complex staple crop, with the wheat genome nearly six times the size of the human genome – making it the most challenging of ...

From the Dakotas to Texas, wheat acres have been on the decline, due to higher temperatures, drought and farmers shifting to more profitable crops. New innovations could rejuvenate the state of wheat ...

MANHATTAN, Kansas, March 25 (Reuters) - Inside a locked chamber the size of a walk-in freezer in Manhattan, Kansas, a few dozen wheat plants growing under bright LED lights are being genetically ...

MANHATTAN, Kan. — Agricultural experts in Kansas say a new hybrid of wheat is growing in some farm fields across the state. Kansas State University recently reported in a publication on Nov. 14 that ...

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Global seed maker Syngenta will release a new type of wheat developed with complex cross-breeding techniques in the United States next year, beating out rival companies that are ...