Einkorn (Triticum monococcum) was the first wheat species domesticated by humans, around 10,000 years ago, playing an important role in the establishment of agriculture in the Middle East. Now, ...

An international team of researchers led by UMD scientists have sequenced the complete genome for einkorn wheat, the world’s first domesticated crop and traced its evolutionary history. The ...

Discover how American agriculture expanded westward, from the wheat frontier to corn-and-hog farming and the rise of Midwest dairy operations ...

Wheat, which includes bread wheat and its relatives, is a staple food crop that feeds about 35% of the world's population. As one of the first ancient crops to appear in the Fertile Crescent, wheat ...

Darren DeBoer, left, grinds wheat while wearing a heart-rate monitor as Kyler McPherson keeps time in Kris Schreiner’s eighth-grade Montana History class at Kalispell Middle School on Tuesday, Feb. 19 ...

Iraqi wheat farmer Ma'an al-Fatlawi has long depended on the nearby Euphrates River to feed his fields near the city of Najaf ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “Ukraine has what may be the richest soil in the world,” writes University of Georgia ...