Named for Cornell University wheat breeder Neil Jensen, the variety in development for about five years has the potential to give farmers another crop option. Because of New York's wet climate, the crop is more susceptible to sprouting and scab, two problematic wheat diseases. Most frustrating are crops that develop disease late in the season and without symptoms until only a week or two before harvest. AURORA - Small grain farmers, researchers and buyers celebrated development of a...

He estimated his winter wheat crop to average 40 bushels per acre, and his spring wheat crop at 50 bushels per acre, adding his barley looks good, too. Likewise, prices for hard red winter wheat and hard red spring wheat would have to be about $1. Department of Agriculture last month show the world is down to a 71-day supply of wheat, the smallest in 25 years. These are great prices, but input costs seed, fuel fertilizer, harvest are also very high. The wheat crop that year was worth a...

This time of year, when the winter wheat harvest is just getting under way and spring wheat is just getting started growing, is when wheat prices typically drop a little. Peterson noted that futures markets in Chicago, Kansas City, and Minneapolis have all challenged or broke through their previous contract highs, most of which were set in April after a frost put a scare into the market as did planting delays in the Corn Belt region. Peterson noted that futures markets in Chicago, Kansas...

Prospects aren't good for this year's wheat crop in Cowley and Sumner Counties, a local co-op manager said today. The harvest usually begins around this time but the cool and wet weather has slowed the maturing of the crop. Crittenden said a combination of factors has contributed to downgraded wheat conditions this year -- Armyworm infestation, strong winds, heavy rain. According to the report, 36 percent of the wheat has turned color from green to amber. He added that he didn't know how...

The nation s wheat harvest begins in the southern states and moves northward as crops mature. In its weekly weather bulletin, the agency reported that winter wheat heading across the middle Mississippi Valley and the southern half of the Great Plains was completed or near completion. The winter wheat harvest typically begins in early June in Kansas, with the Kiowa area historically the first place in the state to take in grain. But NASS noted wheat harvest so far in Texas was 10 percent...