Largest U.S. winter wheat plantings in seven years

With their 2022 crop fetching the highest season-average price on record, wheat farmers sowed 36.95 million acres of winter wheat for harvest this spring and summer — the largest total in seven years, said the Agriculture Department on Thursday. Wheat prices soared following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last February, and winter wheat, the dominant U.S.… » Read More

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