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, [...]
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 [...]
Certified Wheat Seed vs. Saved Seed: Is It Worth the Cost? The cost of Certified Seed Wheat vs. Saved Seed For wheat producers, seed is one of the easiest inputs to scrutinize when commodity prices are tight, and weather conditions are less than ideal. Saving seed wheat from the previous crop can seem like [...]
Getting More Return from Grazing and Grain with Dual-Purpose Wheat Varieties in Oklahoma and Kansas I recently saw a Facebook post about using diversification to improve profitability, specifically by grazing wheat in a dual-purpose system. I agree with that approach—but I think there’s an opportunity to maximize profitability if we look closely at how [...]
We are proud to celebrate the outstanding achievements of our growers who placed in the 2025 National Wheat Yield Contest. This year’s contest, held by the National Wheat Foundation, continues to raise the bar in U.S. wheat production. At Limagrain Cereal Seeds, we’re excited to see the excellent results achieved by farmers who used [...]
Introducing LCS's New Co-Op Advertising Program At Limagrain Cereal Seeds, we’ve always believed that our success is built on strong partnership with dealers and farmers. From the field to the farmgate, we’re in this together—and that’s the spirit behind our new Co-Op Advertising Program. This initiative was designed with one thing in mind: Helping [...]
2024 National Wheat Yield Contest ResultsLimagrain Cereal Seeds Tops the Charts in Winter Wheat Winning both winter wheat Bin Buster awards and many first-place trophies, farmers planting Limagrain Cereal Seeds varieties brought home a lot of gold in this year’s National Wheat Yield Contest. In the Winter Wheat-Dryland category, LCS Shine showed why it [...]
Regional commercial manager Zach Thibault brings cutting-edge grain and pulse genetics to the Mountain West Zach Thibault is excited to introduce more farmers to Limagrain Cereal Seeds (LCS) varieties. The newest LCS regional commercial manager brings an ag upbringing and 5+ years in the seed business to the new Mountain West region covering Montana, [...]
BC Leandra, LCS Genie, LCS Odyssey and LCS Violetta are all recommended by the American Malting Barley Association Source: American Malting Barley Association press release The American Malting Barley Association (AMBA) Board of Directors annually develops a list of recommended malting barley varieties for U.S. growers for the upcoming crop year. AMBA is a nonprofit trade [...]
The regional commercial manager for the PNW comes from a long line of farmers Bailey Jenks found her calling in dryland wheat. The Limagrain Cereal Seeds (LCS) regional commercial manager for the Pacific Northwest brings years of experience, a crop science education and a legacy of farming to her work. Agriculture is in her [...]
