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Colorado scientists trying to control the spread of wheat stem sawfly have just had a major breakthrough.
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A farmer in Keenesburg, Colorado, won first place in the 2023 National Wheat Yield Contest.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…