Pasta on the Plains: A new Kansasgrown wheat could soon be in your box of noodles

Pasta on the Plains: A new Kansasgrown wheat could soon be in your box of noodles
Pasta on the Plains: A new Kansasgrown wheat could soon be in your box of noodles

A new type of wheat dotting Kansas fields has a special use: making pasta.

Wheat acres have continuously declined in Kansas because traditional varieties are not making farmers much money these days. The noodle-focused wheat variety could change that.

Kansas farmers could soon play a role in spaghetti night or be the source of macaroni salad for the community cook out.

More Kansas farmers are testing…