As the harvest season ramps up, wheat farmer Jake Lindsay powers his combine harvester through a sea of golden wheat, blades ...

Straw merchants have warned of tight straw supplies this year, with yields back following a dry spring and summer. Recent ...

The maker of Kleenex and Scott brand products is unveiling this month a line of tissues and towels incorporating wheat straw and bamboo. Kimberly-Clark Professional aims to provide a rapidly renewable ...

Technology expands market possibilities and profit potential for straw Typically baled, burned or left behind, the wheat straw market is evolving. Technology breakthroughs combined with ...

Greg Hoegermeyer of Herman knows the advantages of planting winter wheat. “It breaks up our corn-bean rotation and it creates more organic matter in the soil, because of the root mass,” he ...

Opinion Guest Opinion Pam Clough & Rhonda Barker: How Washington farmers’ wheat straw can help solve a big environmental problem Tue., Jan. 5, 2021 X Email Reddit ...

Nobody quite knows when Purple Straw wheat was first created; researchers from Clemson University have ascertained from historical records that it was certainly well-known at least in the 1700s, ...

Dressed in straw hats and period clothing, Jeff Graf and his son Daniel labored in the Carroll County Farm Museum’s wheat field Monday to demonstrate how to use 18th and 19th century farm ...

The Straw Utilization Task Force, a 3-year-old committee run by the state Department of Agriculture with the Washington Association of Wheat Growers, is evaluating potential uses for the state's ...