In the first survey-based projection of the 2022 crop, the US Department of Agriculture in its May 12 Crop Production report forecast winter wheat production in 2022 at 1.173 billion bushels, down 103.818 million, or 8%, from 1.277 billion bushels in 2021.

As Russia’s invasion chokes off Ukrainian wheat exports, pushing up bread and noodle prices, the global harvest faces an added test: extreme weather.

India said it would ban wheat exports, in a move that will add to global inflationary pressure and further strain global food supplies that have been disrupted by the war in Ukraine.

Argentina is set to replace most of the lost Black Sea wheat supplies to countries in Sub-Saharan Africa in May.

In late 2021, Truterra announced it had facilitated more than $4 million in payments to farmers as part of its carbon program.

The wheat disease stripe rust has been found in a handful of isolated areas of the Pacific Northwest.

A problem that has plagued wheat growers for decades may be nothing but a distant memory in the future.