An international team of researchers led by UMD scientists have sequenced the complete genome for einkorn wheat, the world’s first domesticated crop and traced its evolutionary history. The ...

In an era when investors obsess over gold prices by the ounce, a handful of battered copper coins are quietly rewriting the ...

"In The Globalization of Wheat, Marci R. Baranski explores Norman Borlaug's complicated legacy as godfather of the Green Revolution. Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his role in fighting ...

(NEXSTAR) — The U.S. could move to ditch the penny but that doesn’t mean you should start throwing away your one-cent pieces — especially if they contain a certain grain on them. The penny has ...

Isaac Campbell was having a great start to his Monday, and not just because RAGBRAI’s revelry was brightening Carroll’s downtown. No, Campbell’s good mood was mostly due to bricks — the building kind.

Sixteen bread wheat accessions illustrating the phenotypic diversity existing within this species. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 29th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, ...

China’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Tang Renjian reported the country’s winter wheat condition could be the worst in history. Rare heavy rainfall last year delayed planting of about ...

Nebraska’s farmers have planted the fewest acres of wheat on record as three years of robust harvests and growing international competition force prices down. The state’s producers seeded 1.28 million ...

NAPERVILLE, Illinois, May 18 (Reuters) - Top U.S. winter wheat grower Kansas is having a nightmare season amid exceptional drought, and the annual Wheat Quality Council tour confirmed that Thursday, ...