Optimizing combine performance often requires Sherlock Holmes-type detective work. Cracked or chipped kernels in the grain tank might actually originate 10' in front of the driver’s seat, and grain ...

As we approach heading and flowering time in wheat, early flowering is the time to consider spraying fungicides to protect wheat from Fusarium Head Blight (FHB, or scab). Dr. Darcy Telenko, Purdue ...

Wheat harvest has begun in Southern Indiana. Fusarium head blight (FHB) or scab is one of the most important diseases of wheat and most challenging to prevent. In addition, FHB infection can cause the ...

Two new state-of-the art plot combines will help Washington State University wheat breeders improve their efficiency as they harvest their test plots. The Washington Grain Commission provided nearly ...

Western Kansas–Harvest has been full blast for weeks now and we have been staying very busy. All eight of Schemper Harvesting’s combines are out here in western Kansas and we are certainly working the ...

East of Dodge City, Kansas–We have been staying busy. All of our combines are now in Kansas and are finding plenty of dry wheat to cut. Farmers are calling me wanting their wheat cut. This is when I ...

Across the Kansas plain great puffs of whitish dust erupted into the shimmering heat. Inside these clouds the ponderous combines roared and clanked, their reel slats flashing as they flailed through ...

Anna King / Northwest News Network Golden slopes full of soft white wheat roll and then dive into the snaky, Snake River – just out of Windust, Washington. A farmer rolls a head of his wheat between ...