Matt Noltemeyer

Kansas City

Associate Editor, Markets at Food Business News

Featured in: Favicon

foodbusinessnews.net Favicon

geneticliteracyproject.org Favicon

meatpoultry.com Favicon

bakingbusiness.com Favicon

world-grain.com Favicon

bakemag.com Favicon

petfoodprocessing.net Favicon

supermarketperimeter.com Favicon

idahograin.org Favicon

dairyprocessing.com + 2 more

Articles

Larger yields on Kansas tour’s western leg

3 weeks ago | world-grain.com | Matt Noltemeyer

WICHITA, KANSAS, US — Scouts on the Wheat Quality Council’s annual winter wheat tour through Kansas, the top US production state, estimated the 2025 crop yields in western and southern Kansas higher than last year and the highest since 2021.
Drought, virus evident in tour’s northerly swing

3 weeks ago | bakingbusiness.com | Matt Noltemeyer

COLBY, KAN. — In about seven weeks, central and northern Kansas farmers will harvest a larger wheat crop than in 2024, albeit one where production will be limited by drought stress and wheat streak mosaic virus. Those were the findings of 66 wheat scouts who appraised and measured 196 wheat fields along six color-coded routes through the northern and central cropping districts of the top production state for hard red winter wheat during the 67th annual Hard Winter Wheat Tour.
High variability in central, northern Kansas wheat

3 weeks ago | world-grain.com | Matt Noltemeyer

COLBY, KANSAS, US — In about seven weeks, central and northern Kansas farmers will harvest a larger wheat crop than in 2024, albeit one where production will be limited by drought stress and wheat streak mosaic virus. Those were the findings of 66 wheat scouts who appraised and measured 196 wheat fields along six color-coded routes through the northern and central cropping districts of the top production state for hard red winter wheat during the 67th annual Hard Winter Wheat Tour.
Kansas dries out as wheat tour begins

3 weeks ago | world-grain.com | Matt Noltemeyer

MANHATTAN, KANSAS, US — The first widespread look at the quality and production potential of the 2025 hard red winter wheat crop in the top US production state gets underway May 13. Sixty-six wheat scouts from across the wheat chain were set to depart Manhattan at dawn and follow one of six color-coded routes enroute to Colby, visually appraising and measuring the development of wheat in each county along the way in service of generating a winter wheat production estimate for Kansas.
Kansas wheat tour gets underway

3 weeks ago | bakingbusiness.com | Matt Noltemeyer

MANHATTAN, KAN. — The first widespread look at the quality and production potential of the 2025 hard red winter wheat crop in the top US production state gets underway May 13. Sixty-six wheat scouts from across the wheat chain were set to depart Manhattan at dawn and follow one of six color-coded routes enroute to Colby, visually appraising and measuring the development of wheat in each county along the way in service of generating a winter wheat production estimate for Kansas.
Recovering Oklahoma wheat crop likely smaller

4 weeks ago | bakingbusiness.com | Matt Noltemeyer

OKLAHOMA CITY —Estimates resulting from a recent crop tour suggest Oklahoma winter wheat production in 2025 will be down from 2024. Farmers and others in the wheat value chain in the nation’s third-largest winter wheat state were relieved that April and May rains threw a lifeline to a crop that had been heavily stressed by drought.
Rain soaks US wheat country, batters futures

1 month ago | world-grain.com | Matt Noltemeyer

MANHATTAN, KANSAS, US — While late April rains weren’t as widespread as some hard winter wheat farmers hoped, recent precipitation set up the central Kansas crop for good yields and offered a lifeline to the drought-stressed western Kansas crop. The dose of much needed rain improved crop conditions by April 27 in Kansas and across the primary production region, but helped pressure wheat futures to contract lows.
Quick pace so far for spring wheat seeding

1 month ago | bakingbusiness.com | Matt Noltemeyer

MANDAN, ND. — Producers in the Northern Plains are seeding spring wheat ahead of the typical pace thanks to good fieldwork weather and are hoping Mother Nature offers additional precipitation to get the crop started. “In general, planting is ahead of normal,” said Erica Olson, market development and research manager with the North Dakota Wheat Commission. “We did not get a ton of snow this winter. March was a bit warmer than usual, so that set us up for early planting season.
US winter wheat conditions worsen

1 month ago | world-grain.com | Matt Noltemeyer

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, US — Weekend rains April 19-20 brought some relief to dry hard red winter wheat fields in Kansas and Oklahoma, though potential improvement was not yet apparent in the latest crop conditions report. Winter wheat conditions declined across central and southern portions of the production area, except in Texas. In the Northern Plains, conditions improved in South Dakota, where drought conditions recently eased from 100%, and in Montana.
Tariffs among bevy of unknowns clouding ingredient markets

1 month ago | bakingbusiness.com | Matt Noltemeyer

KANSAS CITY — Data from the US Department of Agriculture’s March 31 Prospective Plantings report indicated more acres planted to corn and fewer acres to wheat and soybeans in 2025. In markets, the projections were quickly overshadowed by uncertainty and ever-changing US tariffs on nearly all imported goods, including commodities, plus retaliatory tariffs imposed by several countries on imports of US goods and US port fees on Chinese-made vessels.