While farmers brought wheat in from the fields to local elevators and finished harvesting about Aug. 1, the average price during that time was about $3.35 per bushel, Head said. The price Tuesday ...
A staff checks newly harvested wheat at a storehouse of a grain and oil company in Qitai County, Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 9 ...
Wheat is the most widely cultivated crop in the world. Easy to grow, this grain is sown from the tropics to the Arctic Circle, and has been an important human food source for at least 10,000 years.
Almost 20 million tonnes of grain has been harvested across the state ... while canola and barley exceeded growers' expectations, wheat was a stand-out crop across the state.
"This year, China ramped up government fiscal support for grain harvest, by raising minimum purchase prices for wheat and rice, stabilizing subsidies for farmland protection, and increasing other ...