The drought monitor report as of Tuesday, Jan. 14th is unchanged from the last several weeks. The six to ten-day outlook (Jan ...

But it is also one of its most vulnerable crops; the twin pressures of climate change and geopolitical instability are threatening wheat’s ability to meet the needs of the rapidly growing global ...

She's part of the team digitising the archive so it can be accessed online. The James Cook sample is a wild wheat plant. It looks spindly and grass-like - quite different from the varieties ...

It can tolerate a wide range of soils, but does not tolerate flooding at all. Wheat is an annual grass that usually is planted at the end of the summer. It overwinters and then starts growing and ...

“There’s a strong demand for solutions other than pesticides — which don’t work for wheat stem sawfly — and finding a ...

Backed by the Gates Foundation, the Wheat Disease Early Warning Advisory System is on the front lines, looking for early signals of crop-killing rust infections.

On a sunny day in late November last year, a man in blue workwear pushed a seeder across a field on the outskirts of this ...

Infected kernels, called “Tombstones” are lightweight and discolored. Fusarium graminearum grows well on decaying plant material, particularly that of wheat, barley, and corn . The fungus overwinters ...

Here are five homegrown foods that might struggle to make it to our supermarket shelves—and how we can keep on growing them. Wheat: 155 gallons of water per pound (1,300 liters per kilogram ...