For centuries, farmers cut and moved hay by hand. Then horses made the work quicker and a bit easier. In the early 1900s, machines like the automatic baler changed everything. At Big Spring Farm Days, ...

With low yields and market prices for wheat, farmers may be better off trying to use the plant as hay. Thin stands, dry soil, uneven maturity and pests have all lowered the value of this year's wheat ...

KANSAS CITY — At the dawn of September, the winter wheat crop was largely in the bin while the spring wheat crop was just more than half harvested and progressing slowly due to weather delays. The ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — The wheat harvest that’s getting started in central South Dakota might finish as one of the area’s all-time best. But weather extremes affecting other wheat-producing parts of ...

LINCOLN — Current cattle market conditions, along with the price and short availability of hay, have created a scenario where the growing winter wheat crop may have more value for producers for ...

A few years ago, I ran a series of articles on understanding agriculture, designed for anyone in the general public who had an interest in understanding more about various agricultural crops and ...

The wheat harvest is underway in West Central Texas, but showers and humid conditions prevented many acres from being harvested, according to the Texas AgriLife Extension Service. Following are ...

The stunted wheat plants on Robert Ferebee’s parched North Dakota farm were in the worst condition he’d seen in almost three decades. Rather than wait until late July or early August to harvest the ...

Andre Rauch harvests wheat July 27 for Starvation Farms north of Lexington in Morrow County, Ore. Wheat production is up this year in Oregon and Washington state. As they reach the halfway point of ...

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 ...

Recent rains have encouraged broadleaf weed growth in growing wheat fields. Kochia, for the most part, is the weed in question, although other weeds may also be a factor interfering with this year’s ...

Above normal temperatures and dry conditions accelerated winter wheat harvest for the week ending July 1, according to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service, Mountain Regional Field Office, ...