Discover how American agriculture expanded westward, from the wheat frontier to corn-and-hog farming and the rise of Midwest dairy operations ...

Numbers are falling. Yes, futures prices remain under pressure but spring wheat producers are also dealing with a quality issue called “falling numbers.” Based on conversations with clients this past ...

Year-over year increases in grain stocks are unwelcome news for corn and soybean farmers, who are poised to harvest record crops in the coming weeks. Commodity markets, though, had a mixed- response ...

Kansas is often called the “Breadbasket of America,” and that reputation did not happen by chance. For over a century, the state has played a central role in feeding both the nation and large parts of ...

Every year, Washington's wheat fields produce over 144 million bushels of grain—enough to fill more than 144,000 tractor-trailers.

On the unforgiving plains of southeastern Wyoming sits the Jessen Wheat Company. Eleven miles north of Pine Bluffs, the farm survives in a dry, windy and oftentimes harsh and unpredictable climate, ...