PORTLAND — Northwest farmers wanted rain and snow this winter, and they got it. Maybe a little too much. The wet weather delayed spring wheat and barley planting across much of the region, ...

Mark Seastrand has been around barley since he was a kid on the family farm. Now, the Sheyenne, N.D., farmer, who though the years has seen ups and downs for the crop, is relatively optimistic about ...

To ensure that plants flower at the right time of year, they possess an internal clock, which enables them to measure the amount of daylight during a day. Biologists now describe that the mutation of ...

The 200-year-old malting barley variety 'Chevalier' was for a long time world-leading in beer brewing and is thought to have originated from a single plant. In a new study, Swedish researchers from ...

Wheat planting in Australia is set to fall about 10 per cent this season as growers cut nitrogen rates and chase lower-cost ...