Farmers have long known that it's a good idea to rotate crops, and that concept is now getting a new spin. A Swiss study indicates that wheat yields are boosted when those crops are planted in fields ...

North-central Iowa farmer Doug Adams caught a lot of people’s attention recently when he grew wheat in his field near ...

UC Davis plant scientist Junli Zhang has discovered genes that would allow high-yielding wheat varieties to better withstand drought conditions. Photo by Trina Kleist, UC Davis. Dwarfing genes in ...

You walk through a field of wheat, ryegrass, or clover and notice the sway of stems and leaves. What you cannot see is where most of the action happens. Beneath the soil surface, roots spread, compete ...

(Left) Wheat grown at normal temperature. (Right) Wheat grown at moderately higher than normal temperatures. This wheat showed high levels of iron deficiency, yellower leaves, less photosynthesis, and ...

Lack of copper in the soil can also lead wheat and other cereal crops to lodge during wet seasons on the Canadian Prairies.