Weather forecasts through May 10 indicate the crop will get planted at about an average pace, therefore the market is slowly removing weather premium from prices. Our spring wheat crop is currently being seeded and producers will finish in May. This is when seasonal price trends turn lower as the market prepares for the impending winter wheat harvest. WHEAT Wheat futures have rallied sharply so far in the month of April due to frost damage that occurred over the Easter weekend. Producers...

Biver, who calls himself the Straw Boss on his business cards, said straw production also may be hurt along with the wheat crop. There is no doubt that the hay crop already has suffered from the killer frost in early April. There is some evidence that hay in northern Illinois was not hit as hard by the freeze because growing patterns there are two or three weeks behind this area. He predicted that people may be bailing things they normally don't, such as road ditches and fence lines. But...

A harsh April freeze and a dry spring have combined to create difficult conditions throughout Tennessee's $20 billion agriculture industry from the winter wheat and hay that farmers are just beginning to harvest to the soybeans and tobacco plants they are trying to get in the ground. Complaining about the weather may be a pastime as old as farming itself, but this year, farmers have reason to be worried, meteorologists and agriculture experts say. A harsh April freeze and a dry spring have...

usDiggRedditYahooMyWebGoogleWhat's this? Threshing Bee set this weekend at Patrick Ranch E-R Staff Article Launched:06/08/2007 02:15:53 AM PDT DURHAM Demonstrations at the annual Patrick Ranch Threshing Bee and Farm Equipment Display Saturday and Sunday will show how farm families lived and harvested wheat 100 years ago. usDiggRedditYahooMyWebGoogleWhat's this? Threshing Bee set this weekend at Patrick Ranch E-R Staff Article Launched:06/08/2007 02:15:53 AM PDT DURHAM Demonstrations at the...

The government last week announced the single desk system would continue but disgraced marketing and export company AWB, which paid kickbacks to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, would not be involved. The decision has angered some Liberal backbenchers who wanted the single desk system to be abolished. May 27, 2007 - 11:09AM Deputy Prime Minister and Nationals leader Mark Vaile says a large majority of wheat growers want the single desk system for wheat exports retained. Get free news...

By Philip Scott SURGING demand from China, the growing fashion for alternative fuels and some of the driest weather conditions on record have pushed crop prices to their highest levels for years, leading some analysts to suggest we are at the start of a multi-year bull market in everything from wheat to milk. By Philip Scott SURGING demand from China, the growing fashion for alternative fuels and some of the driest weather conditions on record have pushed crop prices to their highest...