Online sessions to offer mid-May snapshot of Kansas hard winter wheat crop.

Urges Senate passage of $17 billion infrastructure act.

Spring wheat behind the curve, partly on shift from corn to wheat, soybeans.

Wet soils and cool temperatures to blame.

USDA to assist farmers, ranchers directly and through purchases to feed hungry.

Revered as a “true friend of the wheat industry”

80 ag groups urge urgent passage of rule on fair charges from ocean carriers, terminals.

Other spring wheat down 1%, durum acres down 4%, winter wheat second lowest on record.

Continued coronavirus concerns cancel annual examination of crop potential.

Operations speed up to pre-holiday pace.