This year saw many challenges for wheat growers and those who harvest those crops. It was memorable for us because it marked 15 years of High Plains Journal bringing readers along on the harvest trail ...
Drought notoriously impacts many facets of wheat production. Growers deal with reduced yields and shortened plant heights while facing other issues that cloud a crop’s success. Little moisture also ...
The rhythm of wheat harvest is a symbolic sight during the summer months. This year, the sounds of harvest are rather quiet in some of the biggest wheat producing areas of the country, as extreme ...
As truckload after truckload of harvested wheat makes its way from smaller grain elevators in Hereford and Canyon, Texas to larger operations in Amarillo for loading onto trains and shipment by rail, ...
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to correct a spelling error. WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The Kansas wheat harvest is now stretched across almost half of ...
Ohio's farmers are benefiting from a pleasant surprise. Winter wheat, the state's fourth-most-profitable cash crop, was ready for harvest the third week of June. Recent dry spells have allowed farmers ...
Recent rains have encouraged broadleaf weed growth in growing wheat fields. Kochia, for the most part, is the weed in question, although other weeds may also be a factor interfering with this year’s ...
ELLENDALE, N.D. — Spring wheat harvest is moving into high gear in south-central North Dakota and looking “pretty good,” said farmer Titus Hofer. Hofer was driving a 9770 STS John Deere combine for ...
PERHAM, Minn. — For cereal grain growers in central Minnesota, wheat harvest often corresponds with the wildly popular WE Fest country music event in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, during the first week of ...