Smith grew up on a small farm and was inspired by mentors in agriculture. Now, through his leadership of the Forage Legume Research Program, he focuses on developing new legume and grass varieties ...

From forecast fails to silage success and a carbon audit reveal—here’s what’s been happening on the farm over the past 10 weeks.

Wheat futures surged on the Chicago Board of Trade, as winter wheat crops in the US Plains may suffer from a major storm early next week.

Second-worst ever. That’s how health conditions for the 2025 U.S. winter wheat crop were described last autumn.

Statewide, based on May 1 conditions, Kansas’ 2025 winter wheat crop is forecast at 345 million bushels, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service.

Winter wheat is in its final stages of growth, and harvest will commence in a few weeks. USDA pegged 51% of the U.S. crop at good to excellent earlier this week. That percentage is up 2% from last ...

Attendees will tour wheat, canola and annual forage plots and hear updates from K-State experts, including Logan Simon, southwest area agronomist; Mike Stamm, agronomist and canola breeder; John ...

Declines in wheat and hay acreage may be the main drivers behind a decade-long drop in total crop acreage, according to an analysis by a University of Illinois economist.

Tyson Giles, director of trading in the wheat product line at CHS, Inc., presents a spring wheat and durum update March 11 at the North American Millers’ Association spring conference in Scottsdale.

Therefore, it was hypothesized that plastic bag silos produced at the farm level affect the preservation quality of relocated silage when stored under different conditions over the ST, and that SC ...