Typically baled, burned or left behind, the wheat straw market is evolving. Technology breakthroughs combined with sustainability awareness and the renewable movement have elevated wheat straw and ...

Amid the rolling wheat fields of the Palouse, construction is expected to start next month on something not seen in Washington state in years: a new pulp mill. But this $184 million project in ...

POMEROY — A small group of employees at Columbia Pulp in Pomeroy recently huddled around the base of a conveyor belt that transports wheat straw to a chest where it is mixed with water and chemicals.

One crop that has dropped in popularity in Elkhart County is wheat. Back in 1910, there were 34,877 acres of wheat grown in the county, or 17% of our farmland at that time. In 2017, the Census of ...

Straw merchants have warned of tight straw supplies this year, with yields back following a dry spring and summer. Recent rainfall helped soften the blow across some regions, although for many it was ...

Nowadays people use the terms hay and straw interchangeably, and in most cases, it makes no difference whatsoever. For example, we say we were on a hayride at a get-together even though the wagons are ...

Nobody quite knows when Purple Straw wheat was first created; researchers from Clemson University have ascertained from historical records that it was certainly well-known at least in the 1700s, ...