Wheat

Kansas Wheat 'Tour' Finds Most Fields Are Maturing Early

AP | ROXANA HEGEMAN | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Midwest Wheat Crops, Kansas Agriculture, Wheat, Kansas Wheat, Agriculture, Kansas Wheat Trek, Food, Midwest Agriculture, Kansas Wheat Crop, Kansas Wheat Tour, Video, Green News

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Participants in the annual Kansas winter wheat tour observed drought-stressed wheat fields Wednesday in southwestern counties, ...

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Experts Develop New Wheat Strain

Reuters | Tan Ee Lyn | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Farming, Video, Wheat, New Wheat Strain, New Research, Agriculture, Salt-Tolerant Wheat, Food, Crop Yields, Food Science, Agricultural Science, Reuters, Green News

By Tan Ee Lyn HONG KONG (Reuters) - Scientists in Australia have crossed a popular, commercial variety of wheat with an ancient species...

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The Important Message One Little Stamp Is Trying To Tell You

Kitchen Daily | Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Whole Grain Stamp, Video, Wheat, Cooking Healthy, Grocery Shopping, Bread, Whole Grains, Whole-Grains-Council, KitchenDaily News

Whether you're casually browsing the supermarket aisles or you're on a pointed mission to get everything on your list, you're probably not going to ta...

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On Being Amber Instead of Green

Bill Chameides | Posted 03.07.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Politics, America the Beautiful, Wheat, Presidential Campaign, Corn, Iowa, Agriculture, Green News
Bill Chameides

Is poetic license about vegetation OK in a political campaign? The presidential campaign season is upon us and so we'd better be prepared for some political hyperbole and truth-bending.

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Farm to Fork Across America: What's the Dirt?

Julie Brothers | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Organic Farming, Top Soil, Wheat, Ocean Dead Zones, Soil Errosion, Kernza, Perennial Crops, Biodiversity, Kansas Prairies, Ecosytems, Gulf of Mexico, Conventional Farming, Annual Crops, The Land Institute, Wes Jackson, Food News
Julie Brothers

There's a revolution brewing on the plains of Kansas. For the past 30 years Wes Jackson, founder of The Land Institute, has been working to correct a major step in the wrong direction by the founding fathers of farming -- when they chose annual grain crops instead of perennials.

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The 7 Healthiest Cereals to Eat Before Your 9 a.m. Class

Small Kitchen College | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Energy, Cold, Bran, Chex, Kashi, Sugar, Cheerios, Eggs, Breakfast, Wheat, Vitamins, Oatmeal, Oats, Granola, Fiber, Mornings, Grits, Grape Nuts, Puffins, Class, Cereal, College News
Small Kitchen College

2011-09-21-Screenshot20110921at11.04.17AM.jpgCereal is the optimal college breakfast food.

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Gold Prices Continue To Rise On Europe Economy Fears

AP | SANDY SHORE | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: European Debt Crisis, Gold Prices, Eurozone, Commodities, European Economy, Wheat, Copper, Germany, France, Corn, Oil, Soybeans, Platinum, Video, Business News

Gold prices moved higher Tuesday as concerns deepened about the slowing European economy. Economic growth in Germany and France barely budged in the ...

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Reading the World in a Loaf of Bread

Christian Parenti | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Global Economy, Wheat, Arab Spring, Bread, Resource Conflict, World Bank, War, Oil, Food, Climate Change, Food Prices, World News
Christian Parenti

In much of the world, that daily loaf of bread often stands between the mass of humanity and starvation. If recent upheavals were not "resource conflicts" in the formal sense of the term, think of them at least as bread-triggered upheavals.

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The Casual Beer Drinker's Summer Brews Rundown

Big Girls, Small Kitchen | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Salmon, Beer Tasting, Italian, Barbecue, Shore, Fried, Pretzels, Bbq, Po'boy, Seasonal, Pepperoni, Hops, Clambake, Wheat, Guide, Frat, Summer, Microbrews, Cornfield, Pilsner, Picnic, Salad, Bar Snacks, Softshell Crab, Meatballs, Microbreweries, Pulled Pork, Baseball, Pizza, Beach, Sierra Nevada, Ohio, Beer, Burgers, Beer Garden, Steak, Outdoors, Pub, Imported, Sam Adams, Hot Dogs, Fruit, Martini, Cherries, Domestic, Water, Fish, Fries, Grilled Cheese, Bud Light, American, Cheddar, Seafood, Food News
Big Girls, Small Kitchen

Small Kitchen College Ahh, summer! Nary a warm breeze wafted o'er my sunkissed cheeks before I thought: man, I could really use a beer right now. In...

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Hedge Funds: Time To Go Back To The Soil

TIME.com | Stephen Gandel | Posted 08.03.2011

Read More: Iowa, Hancock-Agricultural-Investment-Group, Wheat, Wall Street, Hedge Funds, Corn, Farmers National, Nebraska, Des Moines, Food Prices, Farmland, Business News

This is usually a slow time of the year for farm sales. It's past prime planting season. Yet, Sam Kain, Des Moines area manager for land sales at Farm...

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Russian Investment Opportunities: The Drivers and the Hidden Gems

Gemma Godfrey | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Russia, Saddam Hussein, Commodity, Equity, Brics, Gaddafi, Qaddafi, Agriculture, Imf, Iraq, China, Business, Tnk-Bp, Dmitry Medvedev, Investing, Libya, Risk, Nato, Wheat, G-8, Middle East, Foreign Reserves, Oil, Gdp, Un, Rts, Economy, Business News
Gemma Godfrey

It is clear to see why investors place so much emphasis on the oil price as a dictator of Russia's financial health. Supplying some 11.4% of the world's oil supply last year, Russia is the "biggest single source outside the OPEC cartel."

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Ending Egypt's Bread Subsidies Could Cause Drastic Price Increases

AP | By CHARLES J. HANLEY | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: President Hosni Mubarak, Wheat, Jordan, Egypt Revolution, Bread, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Import, U.N. Global Food Price Index, Subsidized Bread, Baladi Eish, Bakers, Business News

CAIRO -- In the gritty gusts of a sandstorm, men in turbans and women in veils stood uncomplaining for hours outside a ramshackle kiosk, lined up for ...

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William Alden

Middle East Protests Spark 'Fears Of The Unknown,' As Prices Rise

HuffingtonPost.com | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt Protests, Commodities, Wheat, Middle East Protests, Middle East, Corn, Cotton, Economic Crisis, Bahrain, Oil, Oil Prices, Business News, Gold, Business News

As civil unrest spreads through the Middle East, investors continue to fear that political change in the region could disrupt the world's economies. ...

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Food: What's Really Behind the Unrest in Egypt

Jeffrey Rubin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wheat, Egypt, Food Prices, Wheat Prices, Food-Price-Index, High Food Prices, Egypt Food Prices, Egypt Food, Rising Food Prices, World News
Jeffrey Rubin

When 40% of your population lives on less than $2 per day, soaring food prices isn't about cutting back on luxury spending.

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Who Will Feed Egypt?

Robert Walker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Population, Egypt Protests, Population Growth, Food Riots, Wheat, Egypt, Food Crisis, World News
Robert Walker

While reports differ as to how extensive Egypt's grain reserves are, a shut off of grain imports would imperil Egypt's ability to feed itself.

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Wealthy Ag Lobbies Cry Poor

Donald Carr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farm Bill, Rice, Wheat, Lobbying, Corn, Lobbyists, Cotton, Factory Farms, Big Ag, Agribusiness, Soybeans, Farm Subsidies, Industrial Agriculture, K Street, Food News
Donald Carr

The idea that agribusiness lobbyists don't have the funds to properly "defend" their continuing cornucopia of taxpayer dollars does not even come close to passing the smell test.

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Australian Locust Thrive, Rocky Mountain Ones Disappear

Dr. Reese Halter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Australia, Drought, Grain, Wheat, Australian Plague Locust, Great Plains Grasslands, United States, Water Conservation, Honeybees, Global Warming, Food Security, Locusts, Dr Reese Halter, Organic Farming, Farming, Agriculture, Soils, Climate Change, Green News
Dr. Reese Halter

A plague of locusts of biblical proportion has hatched and is growing as Australia, the fourth largest grain exporter, has gone form 13 years of bone-dry drought to the wettest September since the inception of record keeping in 1860.

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QE2 Dangerous for American Wage Earners

Robert Lenzner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ppi, Wheat, Oil, Qe2, Gold, Silver, Soybeans, Sugar, Commodities, Cpi, Inflation, Commodity Prices, Consumption-Tax, Bernanke QE2, Business News
Robert Lenzner

A policy that makes fortunes for commodity traders, for hedge fund operators, for the gold and silver crowd while squeezing 90% of the nation is a terrible price to pay for replacing deflation with inflation.

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In Farm Country, Democrats' Bitter Harvest

Donald Carr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Farm Bill, Earl Pomeroy, Nancy Pelosi, Agriculture, Agribusiness, Big Ag, Farm Subsidies, Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, Healthy Food, John Boehner, Corn, Cotton, Rice, Wheat, Frank Lucas, Usda, 2010 Elections, Politics News
Donald Carr

Just two years ago, Democratic political strategists defended passage of a status-quo farm subsidy bill by claiming it was essential to the survival o...

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Global Warming: Bees and Flowers

Dr. Reese Halter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pesticides, 350.Org, Barley, Bumblebees, Dr. Reese Halter. Cotton, Wheat, California Lutheran University, American Recovery Act, Colorado River, Glacier Lilies, Global Warming, Electric Cars, Green News
Dr. Reese Halter

When complex biological systems begin to unravel, as in the case of the dying honeybees, there is rarely one cause or smoking gun. Rather, it's usually a combination of factors acting in concert. In the bees' world, there are many problems.

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OPEC At 50 Showing The Way To Rebuild America's Economy "As High As An Elephant's Eye"

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Opec, Corn, Middle Class, American Petroleum Institute, Grains, Canada, Webb-Pomeren Act, Main Street, Politics, Wheat, Oklahoma, Saudi Arabia, Oil, Beltway, Potash, Department of Energy, Mid-America, Canpotex, Eygpt, Ali-Al--Naimi, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

Why don't we learn from OPEC's success? We have a commodity easily as critical to the world's economy as oil. We have corn, we have wheat, we have soybeans -- all grain crops critical to the world's food supply.

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Gold Hits Record High

AP | SANDY SHORE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: IG Markets, India, New York Mercantile Exchange, Commodities, Global Economy, Europe Debt Crisis, Bank Stress Tests, Gold, Grains, India Fall Festival, Investing, European Banks, Wheat, Financial TImes, Business News

Gold prices settled at a record high Tuesday following renewed worries about European banks and the global economy. Gold for December delivery added ...

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Another Food Crisis?

Kimberly Ann Elliott | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russia, Population, Wheat, Food, World Food Programme, Doha, Food Security, World Food Program, Food News
Kimberly Ann Elliott

The decision by Russia to respond to scorching heat and wildfires by restricting wheat exports is threatening to trigger a panic similar to what sent food prices soaring in the first half of 2008.

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Why What You Drive Affects the Price of Bread

Andrew Winston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russian Heatwave, Russia, Drought, Six Degrees of Separation, Natural Resources, Wheat, Climate Change, Climate Legislation, Climate Bill, Grain Harvest, Green News
Andrew Winston

Russia is in the middle of the worst heat wave in its recorded history. When I think about the forces making the pursuit of sustainability unavoidable, I often try to categorize or separate them to get a handle on what's going on.

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Plants Do It Too: The Importance of Plant Breeding

Cary Fowler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crop-Diversity, Wheat, Plant Genetics, Crops, Breeding, Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, Plants, Climate Change, Global-Crop-Diversity-Trust, Global Crop Diversity Trust, Food Security, Cary Fowler, Food News
Cary Fowler

When people shop at the local market and bring home different varieties of apples and peaches and tomatoes, they don't spend too much time thinking about the sex that lay behind those fruits or the development of the different varieties.

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