People paying more for wheat flour due to artificial shortage RIZWAN BHATTI KARACHI (July 09 2007): Hoarders have piled up over three million tonnes of wheat, causing a shortage of this commodity in the domestic market while this situation has compelled consumers to pay more for wheat flour despite its bumper crop of over 23 million tonnes, trade sources said. People paying more for wheat flour due to artificial shortage RIZWAN BHATTI KARACHI (July 09 2007): Hoarders have piled up over...

More wheat growers now harvest their own grain, or neighbors get together and help each other. After last year s drought that shriveled the kernels on the stalks and decimated the crop, the snow in the winter, followed by above average spring rainfall, were just what the winter wheat crop needed. I d say probably one-third of what we grow now is white wheat. Wheat harvest rolls across northeast Colorado Wet spring a blessing to local growers. Wolever noted that more farmers in the Fleming...

Controversies over the mishandling of wheat imports, as also mismanagement of the wheat economy as a whole, refuse to go away, and with good reason. Far from learning any lessons from last year s experience, when each successive wheat import tender attracted bids at progressively higher prices, the government is repeating the same drill this year. Indeed, even though domestic procurement (at a little over 11 million tonnes) has fallen short of the target that had been set, of 15 million...

The plant, due to be operational in 2010 taking 1.1 million tonnes of wheat is of course one of three or four big plants that will be competing for industrial-use grain by the end of the decade and which some industry commentators suggest could account for all of what is currently export volume. Biofuel producer enticing its growers. Farmers Guardian Over 2100 classifieds in. The plant, due to be operational in 2010 taking 1.1 million tonnes of wheat is of course one of three or four big...

Flooded land means crops cannot be reached and large amounts of unharvested produce such as peas, wheat and barley are starting to rot. Fields in north Lincolnshire and east Yorkshire - two important areas growing vegetables - are some of the worst affected areas where up to 40% of the pea crop earmarked to be frozen has been lost. The heavy rainfall has coincided with harvest time for crops such as potatoes. There will certainly be a shortfall plus the cost of harvesting has gone up....

Still, Redman said only about 50% of the wheat crop in the area was cut and much of it was poor quality. This year's harvest was a bad one for many farmers who could not cut all their wheat because of heavy spring rain. Cost of crops was adjusted by insurance companies, he said, and farmers will be able to collect federal crop insurance. Weathers said most had crop insurance and will be able to survive another year, but without a bumper crop next year things could be pretty bleak. He...