Whatever else they might have done on the Saturday morning of a holiday weekend, a crew of volunteers arrived July 2 at the field farmed by Mark Smith on Kelly Road in Burr Oak. They spanned all ages ...

I love travel. I was always an old soul with a case of wanderlust. I dreamed of exploring the world, seeing new places and meeting new people. I never dreamed I would fulfill some of those desires ...

FAIRDALE, N.D. — Wrapping up the wheat harvest in the final days of September isn’t optimal for Dustin McGregor, but he is grateful for the good weather that gave him the green light to keep his red ...

WASHBURN - Kent Pfaff runs combines in a field near a massive coal-fired power plant, the green machines and the towering smokestacks representing mighty pillars of North Dakota’s economy out in the ...

David and Lisa Schemm repair a combine during the summer wheat harvest in Sharon Springs, Kansas. They’ve been contending with drought, inflation, and price shocks brought on by the Russian invasion ...

Western Kansas — When we arrived out west on June 20, I didn’t know what to expect for wheat yields. To my surprise, the dryland wheat is yielding very well. The first quarter of wheat I cut made 95 ...

Last Saturday it took nine people about six hours to reap one-tenth of an acre of wheat at Alprilla Farm in Essex. Scythes in hand, we cut the wheat and tied armfuls into sheaves, just like Millet's ...

Wheat harvesting season is here and many farmers are struggling with a weak crop. A lack of rain, especially in the western part of Oklahoma and Texas, has forced farmers to worry about their wheat ...

Crop yield in low-rainfall environments is a complex trait under multigenic control that shows significant genotype×environment (G×E) interaction. One way to understand and track this trait is to link ...