Goodbye, old penny. The U.S. Mint stopped minting pennies earlier this month, a significant milestone after the coins lost their economic utility in the face of inflation and cost more to make than ...

The U.S. Mint has struck its last penny. Here’s what Californians need to know about cash rounding coin jars and rare penny ...

That’s the message from Kevin McColly, CEO of Coinstar, the company behind those coin-cashing machines you see in supermarkets. American consumers made only 16% of their payments in cash in 2023, ...

Auction bidders spent top dollar for some of the final pennies to be circulated in the U.S. before the government ended the ...

Wheat pennies are a classic example of small change that can secretly be worth a fortune, and a handful of dates and ...

UC Davis researchers engineered wheat that encourages soil bacteria to convert atmospheric nitrogen into plant-usable fertilizer. By boosting a natural compound in the plant, the wheat triggers ...

Wheat is one of the most important resources in human civilization originally cultivated more than 10,000 years ago, and in the video game Palworld, it's fairly important for baking up some delicious ...

Outside the Denver Mint earlier this week, school groups and tourists waited in the sunshine, lined up against the side of the downtown building for a chance to see where America's money is made. But ...

Nancy Forster-Holt does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Philadelphia — A wheel cranks on the machine at the Independence Visitor Center, slowing with every turn until: CLINK! A reward drops out the bottom waiting to be collected. It’s a familiar, elongated ...

Did you know about half of all wheat grown in the U.S. is exported? USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) estimates 21 million metric tons of wheat was shipped out of U.S. ports in 2022, totaling ...