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...

Maryland farmers have until the end of the month to sign up for $8 million in state money earmarked to pay for winter cover crops. The program, administered through local Soil Conservation Districts and managed by the Maryland Agricultural Water Quality Cost-Share Program (MACS), is designed to encourage farmers to plant grains such as barley, wheat and rye on fields after their summer crops are harvested. Carroll County Times: Westminster, Maryland , The program, administered through...

Most farmers would like to see the rain cease for a few weeks so they can harvest crops, but only wheat producers seem to be feeling an immediate pinch. The overall consensus is the corn and grain crops are above-average, and wheat just depends on the ability to get in the fields. It s been a good spring for grain and corn, area farmers have said, but the cotton s a little late because of the wet stuff, Crawford said. The bounty of rain is a marked improvement over the recent drought...

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If we get the cool, wet weather predicted, growers should expect to apply a fungicide to susceptible varieties at the first signs of infection," Burrows said. Wheat growers who have planted a variety known to be susceptible to stripe rust need to scout their fields immediately looking for yellow pustules that occur in stripes, she said. Most registered products have a 45-day waiting period between application and harvest, so grain growers need to consider the interval to crop maturity when...

Good market supplies of imported grain (rice and wheat) and the start-up of the second phase of the Village-Level Food Security Reserves (SAVS) program have improved availability, but steadily increasing prices are limiting grain access for many farming and agropastoral households in livelihood zones 5, 6 and 7 (Figure 1) Good market supplies of imported grain (rice and wheat) and the start-up of the second phase of the Village-Level Food Security Reserves (SAVS) program have improved...