Department of Agriculture says more than one-forth of the corn and oat crops were planted last week, and sugarbeet and green pea plantings also advanced as warmer temperatures improved field conditions. As of Sunday, an estimated 28 percent of corn acreage was planted, compared with 43 percent last year and 38 percent for the five-year average. PAUL (AP) - Planting of corn and small grains began in earnest last week, but progress is still behind average. Sugarbeet planting was 38 percent...

On April 18, 1977, amid mounting calls for energy independence, President Jimmy Carter donned his cardigan sweater and appeared on television to tell Americans that balancing energy demands with available domestic resources would be an effort the "moral equivalent of war. As corn growers in the developed world receive hefty subsidies from their governments, counterparts in the developing world become less competitive in the global market. Billions of impoverished people depend on corn and...

Weather remains the focus of the corn market as many traders look for the weather to clear this week, giving many farmers the first opportunity to get corn planted. The corn market was lower on Friday on the forecast for better planting weather in coming weeks helping to get the estimated record corn crop in the ground in plenty of time to not affect yields. Spread trade is still the dominant trade in the corn market as many traders are nervous about trading flat price corn and are turning...

Grain prices were slipping Monday as forecasts of favorable weather improved the prospects for higher crop yields, leading to concerns that there would be bigger-than-expected supplies at harvest time. There is expected to be a dramatic increase in the acreage of corn planted this season, Glenn adds. He says conditions are expected to be warm, with modest moisture in Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma, the key growing areas for hard red winter wheat. The firms that sell agricultural products were...

It s a gold rush everyone wants to get in on, said CBS reporter Cynthia Bowers in a segment examining a possible record year in store for corn growers. Bowers noted the high demand for corn-based ethanol, which will gobble up 25 percent of this year s corn harvest. In addition to corn and retail food prices, CBS might have examined how the anti-free market corn and ethanol subsidies will affect the price of gas at the pumps and a host of other consumer products. The ethanol market is a...

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