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Another 1st at The Kansas Wheat Innovation Center

Posted on August 22, 2013 by aarhar

The farmer-owned Kansas Wheat Innovation Center in Manhattan has already been a success with the establishment of a double haploid business.  This week, K-State announced that the Center will soon become the headquarters for a new National Science Foundation Center. … Continue reading →

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Argentinean Farmers Visit Kansas

Posted on August 22, 2013 by Nicole Lane

On a normal year, Argentina and the United States would be competitors in the world wheat market. Argentina has consistently been a large wheat export country and supplier to Brazil. However, after action from the Argentinean government has driven the … Continue reading →

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State FFA Officers visit the Kansas Wheat Innovation Center

Posted on August 12, 2013 by Nicole Lane

Five Kansas FFA State Officers and the Kansas National FFA Officer Candidate visited the Kansas Wheat Innovation Center Monday, August 12.  As a part of their business and industry tour the state officers visit several agricultural businesses and organizations to … Continue reading →

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KWIC Welcomes Dr. Sonny Ramaswamy

Posted on July 25, 2013 by Kansas Wheat

The Kansas Wheat Commission welcomed an old friend to the Kansas Wheat Innovation Center on July 25. Dr. Sonny Ramaswamy, director of the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), toured the KWIC and learned more about the wheat … Continue reading →

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From the Field: Tour Shows Mixed Bag of Wheat Conditions

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Kansas Wheat

Freeze damage, drought damage and hail damage were par for the course during a quick tour through central, western and southern Kansas wheat fields April 15-16. Kansas Wheat Alliance’s Daryl Strouts and I expected to see freeze damage, after temperatures … Continue reading →

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Freeze injury update – worse than we thought

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Kansas Wheat

Originally posted on WORLD OF WHEAT:
On April 4th I toured southwest Oklahoma and surveyed freeze injury to wheat. In my experience, most freeze events are overhyped; however, this one was the real deal Holyfield.  I traveled a route from…

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ConAgra Mills, Horizon Milling to Combine Flour Mill Operations

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Kansas Wheat

There’s big news coming out of Omaha and Minneapolis today: ConAgra Mills and Horizon Milling (CHS and Cargill’s flour milling group) have joined flour mill operations. The combined operations, called Ardent Mills, will: “…take advantage of the combines assets, capabilities … Continue reading →

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End of an Era: The Kansas City Board of Trade

Posted on February 7, 2013 by justinpgilpin

In an announcement earlier this week, the CME Group announced its intention to “…transition open outcry trading of Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT) hard red winter (HRW) wheat futures and options to its Chicago trading floor beginning Monday, July … Continue reading →

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Wheat Field Report: Poor Crop Taking Shape

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Kansas Wheat

Despite various amounts of rain and snow throughout Kansas since Christmas, the Kansas wheat crop is in poor shape, based on reports from directors of the Kansas Association of Wheat Growers and personal observations occurring Jan. 15-Jan. 21. KAWG directors … Continue reading →

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Relihan: Drought to Continue in 2013, Abate in 2014

Posted on January 17, 2013 by Kansas Wheat

We asked Nicole Lane, Kansas Wheat’s communications intern, to write about one of the hottest topics of the 2013 Kansas Commodity Classic, held Jan. 17 in Manhattan: the 2012 drought. Here is here blog entry. Dave Relihan At the Kansas Commodity Classic … Continue reading →

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