The Biden administration, in a bid to expand U.S. wheat acres to offset Ukraine’s export losses, wants to make more farmers eligible for insurance when they grow wheat and soybeans in the same crop ...
The Agriculture Department will allow double cropping to be insured in hundreds of additional counties this winter in an effort to address shortages of wheat and other commodities caused by the war in ...
Double cropping wheat after corn is a common practice in some regions, though it’s less frequently done after sorghum. This discrepancy can be attributed to two main factors. First, corn is often ...
You’ve probably eaten a pulse crop and not even realized it. Whether it’s hummus, made from chickpeas, or lentils in soups or salads, the edible legumes might be small in size, but are packed with ...
The USDA has made changes to allow farmers to plant and harvest two crops on the same piece of land. Essentially, allowing for two-cash crops, KCRG reports.“I’ll plant a rye in the fall, and soybeans ...