Researchers have identified a genetic driver in wheat that improves wheat yield and can increase protein content by as much as 25 percent. The discovery of a gene that controls these two desirable factors has the potential to expand wheat breeding and generate new varieties.

North Side Pumping Co. will retire some century-old infrastructure with help from new federal funding. The Jerome, Idaho, irrigation water provider plans to decommission some systems and add or upgrade others.

About 31% of Idaho's farmers are retirement age.More than half of American farmers will reach retirement age in the next 10 years, but the steep price of entry to start a farm, along with rising input costs and volatile markets, make it tough for young and beginning farmers to take their places.

Spring rain storms will have made a big difference when Magic Valley farmers harvest their crops this fall.

In some years, the value of food aid donations can be the equivalent of a Top 10 customer for wheat grown by U.S. farmers, according to an expert at U.S. Wheat Associates, the trade arm of the U.S. wheat industry.

A trade team of flour millers from Morocco, Algeria, Egypt and Oman began their tour of the U.S. last week in Idaho.

We thoroughly enjoyed the time we got to spend with this team of millers and wheat buyers from Morocco, Oman, Egypt, and Algeria, pictured here with IWC Commissioner Bill Flory.