WASHINGTON, July 6 (UPI) -- The U.S. winter wheat harvest is keeping up with its historic pace, but spring wheat is lagging its five-year benchmarks, the weekly crop report said.
WASHINGTON, June 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. Agriculture Department said winter and spring wheat crops had caught up with their five-year averages as the winter wheat harvest gets under way.
WASHINGTON, June 8 (UPI) -- Progress in the spring wheat crop remains far behind its historic average, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday.
WASHINGTON, May 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. corn planting stands at 33 percent completed, but has fallen further behind its historic average compared with a week ago, the government said.
CHICAGO, May 14 (UPI) -- Corn, wheat and rice traded lower Wednesday on the Chicago Board of Trade as forecasts for drier spring weather could allow corn planting to hit its stride.
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- The cost of wheat surged to a record $19.80 a bushel this week on the Minneapolis Grain Exchange as grain supplies dwindle.
WASHINGTON, April 19 (UPI) -- The U.S. winter wheat crop in the Great Plains and Western Corn Belt suffered under dry weather and higher-than-average temperatures last week.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Eighteen universities across the United States are combining desirable genes from different varieties of wheat to make better and more competitive varieties.
BAGHDAD, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Iraqi officials switched a lucrative wheat contract from Australia to the United States, the Melbourne Herald Sun reported Tuesday. Giving the $200 million order to U.S. exporters ends Australia's 50-year dominance of wheat sales to Iraq.
COLUMBIA, Miss., Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Scientists are developing new aluminum-tolerant wheat strains that can grow in poor, acidic soils. They hope this conventionally bred, non-genetically modified
