The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed the discovery of unapproved, genetically modified (GM) wheat plants growing in an un-planted agricultural field in Washington state. There was no ...

An unapproved variety of genetically modified wheat was discovered growing in a Washington state field, U.S. Agriculture Department officials said, though there are no signs that it made its way into ...

A “very cold” February dropped expected stripe rust levels from severe to low. Highly susceptible wheat varieties are now expected to only have an 18% yield loss due to stripe rust, down from a 41% ...

The wheat fungus stripe rust, previously found only in research fields so far this season, has now been found on farmers’ commercial fields in Washington, regional stripe rust expert Xianming Chen ...

Every year, Washington’s wheat fields produce over 144 million bushels of grain—enough to fill more than 144,000 tractor-trailers. However, getting that wheat from Eastern Washington to customers ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Updated at 4:30 p.m. Genetically modified wheat developed by Monsanto and never approved by federal regulators has been found ...