Kansas is an important “breadbasket” state because of its massive wheat production, but in recent years that’s been changing. With poor profits and drier climates, wheat has been harder to manage. New innovations could rejuvenate the economy and production of the wheat state.

It was 1874 when a large influx of Russian immigrants settled in Kansas bringing with them a hard red variety of wheat.

This wheat variety grew well in the harsh summers and dry winters.

Hard red winter wheat swallowed the Plains, and when you drive across Kansas in June you see it turn the land gold. Kansas has even been known in the past as the “ breadbasket of the world .”

Today, Kansas embraces its wheat identity, and still is one of the top wheat producing states. But wheat acres have continued to trend d

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