Ed Maixner

A marketable perennial wheat remains decades in the future while some of its cousins are emerging in fields and the marketplace.

Though the remnants of Hurricane Florence finally dumped their last torrents of rain near the U.S. Northeast coast and drifted back out to the Atlantic Ocean Tuesday, the storm’s havoc is sure to plague the Carolinas and its farms for weeks.

Investment and sales of farm robots continue apace, despite a painful shortage of skilled workers to operate them and need for improved rural internet service.

Breeders and biotech companies are hoping for regulatory elbow room as the EU and other nations pursue oversight rules for gene editing techniques.

The U.S. sugar market is changing, with more emphasis placed on secure supply and fast, dependable delivery over the bare market price, experts said at the annual American Sugar Alliance conference.

Voters in November are likely to hand Donald Trump a GOP Senate and Democratic House, an elections analyst declared at a national sugar conference.

New Ohio River locks and dam will mean an end to a long Corps of Army Engineers headache and a boon to inland waterways shipping.