/tags/wheat Wheat en-US Copyright KUNC/Community Radio for Northern Colorado 2020 Mon, 01 Jul 2024 11:51:00 GMT /news/2024-07-01/progress-is-a-parasitoid-wasp-for-colorado-wheat-farmers-plagued-by-sawfly Colorado scientists trying to control the spread of wheat stem sawfly have just had a major breakthrough. Mon, 01 Jul 2024 11:51:00 GMT /news/2024-07-01/progress-is-a-parasitoid-wasp-for-colorado-wheat-farmers-plagued-by-sawfly Rae Solomon /news/2023-11-25/amber-waves-of-grain-earn-glory-for-colorado-farmer-who-took-first-in-national-wheat-yield-contest A farmer in Keenesburg, Colorado, won first place in the 2023 National Wheat Yield Contest. Sat, 25 Nov 2023 12:56:00 GMT /news/2023-11-25/amber-waves-of-grain-earn-glory-for-colorado-farmer-who-took-first-in-national-wheat-yield-contest Rae Solomon /environment/2022-10-18/colorado-farmers-experiment-with-drought-tolerant-wheatgrass With the flashlight shining out of the back of his cellphone, Perry Cabot, a water resources specialist at Colorado State University’s Western Colorado Research Center in Fruita, hunched behind a grain drill, a piece of equipment farmers use to plant seeds in a field. Tue, 18 Oct 2022 20:31:46 GMT /environment/2022-10-18/colorado-farmers-experiment-with-drought-tolerant-wheatgrass Chris Outcalt |The Colorado Sun /community/2022-08-05/a-native-bug-is-flattening-colorados-wheat-fields-farmers-are-trying-to-keep-ahead-of-it Dryland wheat farming on Colorado’s Eastern Plains has never been easy. But there’s a new and growing challenge. A native bug that has lived on the plains for at least 150 years has now become a scourge of the wheat fields. Fri, 05 Aug 2022 23:15:34 GMT /community/2022-08-05/a-native-bug-is-flattening-colorados-wheat-fields-farmers-are-trying-to-keep-ahead-of-it Rae Solomon /news/2017-05-01/heavy-snow-causes-localized-damage-to-eastern-plains-crops Farmers across the Great Plains are in their fields trying to gauge the damage from this weekend’s snowstorm. So far, the results are mixed.The storm’s… Mon, 01 May 2017 22:57:52 GMT /news/2017-05-01/heavy-snow-causes-localized-damage-to-eastern-plains-crops Harvest Public Media /business/2016-03-08/a-cash-crop-of-basement-growers-cannabis-has-caught-the-eye-of-colorados-farmers Cannabis is beginning to look a lot like a commodity crop.After spending decades in darkened basements and secreted away on small parcels of land,… Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:00:00 GMT /business/2016-03-08/a-cash-crop-of-basement-growers-cannabis-has-caught-the-eye-of-colorados-farmers Harvest Public Media /science/2016-01-06/with-bumper-crops-in-corn-and-soy-wheat-still-lags-behind Wheat is one of the world’s staple foods and a big crop on the Great Plains, but it has been left in the dust. A corn farmer can grow 44 percent more… Wed, 06 Jan 2016 18:23:27 GMT /science/2016-01-06/with-bumper-crops-in-corn-and-soy-wheat-still-lags-behind Harvest Public Media /environment/2015-01-23/2015-likely-to-be-a-mixed-bag-for-colorado-farmers 2014 brought with it an abundance of grain for Colorado farmers and it doesn’t look likely to change in 2015. While farmers wait for a rebound, the new… Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:54:06 GMT /environment/2015-01-23/2015-likely-to-be-a-mixed-bag-for-colorado-farmers Harvest Public Media /business/2014-09-09/monsanto-set-to-settle-gmo-wheat-cases Monsanto has agreed to settle some of the lawsuits brought by U.S. farmers who allege they lost money when an Oregon field was discovered to have been… Tue, 09 Sep 2014 15:00:54 GMT /business/2014-09-09/monsanto-set-to-settle-gmo-wheat-cases Harvest Public Media /environment/2014-06-13/drought-continues-to-hammer-great-plains-wheat Much of the Midwest and the Plains have been battling drought for years. And the current winter wheat crop looks like it will be one of the worst in… Fri, 13 Jun 2014 11:00:00 GMT /environment/2014-06-13/drought-continues-to-hammer-great-plains-wheat Ariana Brocious