- Russia’s war is triggering a wheat shortage in countries dependent on Ukraine’s supply.
- The Biden administration has pushed to expand US wheat production, but incentives have limits.
- Droughts in the Great Plains and rain in the upper Midwest have challenged this year’s wheat harvest.
Clay Schemm’s great grandfather moved to Kansas in the 1920s with a tractor and not much else.
The cash crop was wheat.
Today, Schemm, 26, continues that tradition at farms in his home of Sharon Springs, Kan. near the state’s western border and a few hundred miles away in eastern Kansas.
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