As of Sept. 1, the entire area of Perkins and Hayes counties is experiencing an “exceptional drought,” the most severe category of drought listed by the U.S. Drought monitor. Drought conditions have ...

Winning both winter wheat Bin Buster awards and many first-place trophies, farmers planting Limagrain Cereal Seeds varieties brought home a lot of gold in this year’s National Wheat yield contest. In ...

Planted winter wheat is up 2% in both the Pacific Northwest and the United States, the USDA says in its annual winter wheat seedings report. Idaho is expected to have the same acreage as last year — ...

FORT PIERRE, S.D. — Winter wheat planting is underway across South Dakota but is slightly behind last year. According to the South Dakota crop progress report from the National Agricultural Statistics ...

Upper Midwest farmers are battling showers to harvest their spring wheat crop. But September also is the time to plant winter wheat, a crop that’s drawing more attention than unusual this fall in ...

HAYES, S.D. -- Transit demand, trends toward a rise in crop acreage, better yields and an increase in treated seed use have nudged Al Meier into some big investments in 2014 -- both in grain storage ...

The seed decision is often marred with complexity—especially in wheat seed selection. Do you save money and use an older variety, use bin-run seed or opt for a new, certified, though undoubtedly more ...