The GMG Story: How Four Co-Ops & LCS Built a Partnership When a new class of Limagrain Cereal Seeds varieties is ready for the research plots, Bailey Jenks, LCS’s regional commercial manager for the Pacific Northwest, brings her customers out to walk them. Her pitch is short. “This is what you can pick from. [...]
Managing Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus: Symptoms, Prevention, and Control Wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV) remains one of the most damaging viral diseases affecting wheat acres across the Great Plains and Western United States. In severe cases, infections can dramatically reduce grain yield or even decimate entire wheat crops. Wheat streak mosaic virus is transmitted by [...]
How HighLine Grain Growers and LCS Shape Pacific Northwest Wheat Varieties By the time we caught up with Geoff Schulz in October, the fall seed rush at HighLine Grain Growers was starting to ease. HighLine’s seed manager had even made a call his crew would appreciate. “I think we’re actually going to just work [...]
Limagrain Cereal Seeds 2026 National Wheat Yield Contest WinnersWe are proud to celebrate another outstanding year for LCS growers in the 2026 National Wheat Yield Contest. From the Pacific Northwest to the Northern Plains, growers planting Limagrain Cereal Seeds varieties delivered impressive results at both the national and state levels.This year, LCS varieties earned six [...]
Late-Planted Hard Red Winter Wheat: Seeding Rates, Stand Establishment and Yield Potential Each fall, weather delays, harvest challenges, and dry soil conditions can push winter wheat planting beyond the ideal window. You may also have opportunities to use moisture and favorable weather to plant behind summer crops that come off earlier in the fall. While [...]
A Legacy Six Generations Strong Blake Inman and his wife, Danae, are the fifth generation on her family’s farm near Berthold, North Dakota, ground the Birdsalls have worked since 1905. On the day we caught up with Blake, the small grains harvest was wrapped up and the seed plant was running. He’d finished a big [...]
Growing Wheat in Corn Country In southwest Iowa, corn and soybeans run the show. Wheat? Not so much among the highly erodible hills and terraces of the Omaha-Council Bluffs area. The story’s no different at Witt Brothers Farms, located in Pottawattamie County. The farm has no livestock to speak of. Like most Iowan farms, [...]
Showing Your Work In the Central Plains wheat pasture country of Kansas, a seed dealer isn’t hard to find. It is, however, hard for a new face to stand out. Yet, five years in, Eric and Ryan Molz have found a way to do just that. At Molz Seed, the duo follows a rule every [...]
2026-27 U.S. Wheat Market Outlook: What Could Wheat Prices Look Like? Since record prices in early spring 2022, U.S. wheat farmers have watched the excitement of growing wheat on their operations fade. For some, this has led them to seek alternative crops and markets for their acres, but for others, it has meant weathering [...]
Wheat Variety Selection: Building Your Lineup Like a Championship Football Team Spending a lot of time driving across the Central Plains gives me plenty of opportunities to think. Admittedly, this time of year, most of those thoughts revolve around two things: wheat varieties and college football. Recently, those two topics somehow merged into one [...]
