State farmers lose many fruit crops, corn and wheat. It's been a disheartening spring for Tennessee growers and the effects will linger into summer. The sudden cold snap wiped out many fruit crops and hurt the state's corn and wheat. April arrived with promise, but then it froze for about five straight nights. March had been unseasonably warm. And if that wasn't bad enough, snow followed.

Earlier on Friday, weather forecasters said about 60 percent of crops sown to the 2007 harvest were suffering from a drought which could depress the harvest. Leading agriculture consultancy UkrAgroConsult said this week it had revised the 2007 wheat crop outlook to between 16 and 17 million tonnes from the previous estimate of 17. He said severe drought was likely to continue over the next five to seven days and that would worsen the state of the crops. The ministry proposed no revision to...

The wet conditions also make wheat susceptible to bending in wind,not to mention the damage possible from even the smallest hail. The frustrating part is, the crop is good, farmers just can't harvest until it dries out, which could take four to five days of dry weather. You multiply that over several thousand acres - if a guy is farming that big, it can be a very very big economic loss. Farmers don't have much time to harvest this year's crop. That's kind of like 'would you rather drop a...

Agriculture officials say many who chanced that their wheat would recover are going to have a sub-standard crop. The springtime freeze in Arkansas damaged almost all of the winter wheat crop. An early April freeze turned what had been vibrant, green carpets emerging in fields weak and yellow in many areas, growers from Arkansas to Illinois to Kansas were affected. Late spring freeze leaves winter wheat crop in doubt. Some farmers plowed their fields under after their crop a total loss....

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Wheat marketing is again dividing the Coalition as the Prime Minister tries to quell internal ructions over the future of the single desk. Nationals' Senator Barnaby Joyce has been campaigning against deregulation of the wheat marketing system and says while there are parts of the plan he is not happy with, overall it is a good outcome. Growers have until the end of March to develop a new body to run the single desk, but the party room was told that the demerged AWB International will be...