If pregnant women were to eat sufficient wheat germ or take wheat germ oil capsules, the painful experience of miscarriage could often be prevented. If people only realised how wonderfully nourishing and curative these flakes are they would serve them every day, including in their breakfast muesli. Anyone suffering from impotence should take a long-term course of wheat germ or wheat germ oil capsules. It is not for nothing that vitamin E is also called the fertility vitamin, since it plays...

If we do plant the 90 million acres suggested and yields are equal to last year with the projected USDA usage and demand our ending stocks will still come in under 1 b. In other words, we need to have perfect weather or the 12 million more acres to be planted to keep up with demand will not be enough to keep our ending stocks from shrinking. If weather gurus come in next week and call for an end to the cold and wet conditions, they will unwind the spreads put on this week that was buy...

wheat futures are called to start Tuesday's day session modestly firmer after overnight gains and with support from a friendly new government supply/demand report, traders and analysts said. Technically, CBOT July wheat has produced a bullish V-bottom reversal pattern on the daily bar chart, which suggests a market low is in place, a technical analyst said. The report was deemed bearish for corn and soybeans, however, and it will be hard for wheat to stay higher if the other markets are...

With fertilizer prices for farmers up 30 percent from a year ago and crop nutrients in tight supply, homeowners can expect to see a significant, although smaller, bump in costs for lawn and garden products this spring, experts say. Corn prices have doubled in recent months, helping farmers decide to devote up to 12 million more acres to the grain -- and sending suppliers such as The Andersons inc. scrambling to meet fertilizer demand, said Dennis Addis, president of the Maumee, Ohio-based...

Fruit crops aren't the only crops to be suffering as a result of the below freezing temperatures the past five nights. She looked at samples over the weekend and says the growth point of the crop has some damage, but the question is to what extent. Weiss says for fields that are new plantings this spring, you'll probably have a hard time finding plants that survived the cold because they were too tender. Weiss says if farmers want to take in the crop early because of the damage, it cannot...

Area crops and gardens could be in danger if temperatures fall below freezing during the next couple of days. Wheat is nearing its harvest time and is at an important point in its development, but it is a hardy plant. Corn plants with less than six leaves on them still have their growing tips below the ground and will be protected, Erwin said. One natural defense the young plants have going for them is that with the recent warm temperatures, the ground is still very warm. Though the plants...