Although Missouri is the top state for soft red winter wheat and 13th in overall wheat production it has no wheat growers association, but there are now efforts to start one.
Richard Arnett, director of the Missouri Crop Improvement
Association, has connected with some farmers who’ve been working on private
wheat research to form a state grower’s group.
Arnett says, unlike corn and soybeans, a lot of new wheat
varieties come out of the public sector for wheat but funding is drying up, “A
lot of the other states have checkoffs and things like that, that will build a
base level of funding support for wheat variety development programs, things
like that.
Continue reading Missouri wheat group in the works at Brownfield Ag News.
