My son, Mike, and I recently spent 6 days looking at no-till in the Palouse, a 3,000-square-mile area located in the southeastern corner of Washington, north central Idaho and northeast Oregon. While I've visited this area several times where no-tillers grow crops on slopes as steep as 60%, I’d never been there during harvest of wheat, barley, peas, lentils and garbanzo beans.

University of Wisconsin cropping specialists offer up seven suggestions for getting winter wheat stands established.

The recent run-up in wheat prices has some growers thinking that it may be lucrative to keep their winter wheat acreage up this fall.

Researchers developing prototypes for a new deep furrow seed drill are preparing for trials to test their designs this summer in Eastern Washington.