With the smaller seeded acres, the market will need a perfect growing season to be adequately supplied with inventory to meet the growing world demand. With the extreme volatility in today s marketplace, producers need to use options to manage their price risk and guarantee lofty price levels when they are available. Spring wheat, grown primarily in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Idaho and Montana, is entering into its key yield-reproductive time frame and will be very sensitive to...

Both corn and soybeans need moisture during the crucial pollination stage, which for corn comes in mid-July and for soybeans in early August. Other commodities markets were mixed at midday, with industrial and precious metals mostly lower, while oil and gasoline futures moved in divergent directions. NEW YORK - Forecasts for cooler, wetter weather in the Midwest this week the conditions needed for a healthy crop of corn and soybeans triggered a sharp pullback in agriculture prices on the...

However, soybean emergence is at 96 percent, with 35 percent blooming and 7 percent setting pods, both on pace with the five-year average. Farmers with flooded fields in west-central and southwest Missouri have given up on planting double-crop soybeans. Some farmers in the west-central district opted to burn fields because of severe lodging and quality deterioration, MASS said. Wheat harvest is 92 percent complete, compared with the five-year average of 99 percent. Sorghum condition is...

Coupled with a lack of moisture in the western and central Corn Belt, rising temperatures -- from which the region has received respite this week with cooler-than-normal temperatures in the 70s -- will ratchet up the stress on crops, according to Thursday's Freese-Notis Weather, inc., weather market commentary. Corn plants are showing the tell-tale signs of drought stress in western parts of the Corn Belt, and forecasters say it may be some time before Mother Nature provides relief from...

Today, he s a leading expert whose company, Soyatech, is an internationally recognized publishing, research, and consulting firm devoted to sustainable development in the soybean, oilseed, agribusiness, food and biofuels industries. He travels throughout the world as an internationally recognized consultant to the soybean and related foods industry, has chaired 10 international symposia on the soybean-based product industry, and has authored a number of major studies on the soybean and...

Indiana currently ranks fourth in soybean production in the United States, with about 28,000 farmers cultivating more than 5.4 million acres a year. The mother-son team went into the soy byproduct business, providing items such as soy candles, animal feed, soy hand and body lotion and soy massage creams. She and son Richard Culler, 58, devised a plan that would keep her busy and help maintain their 800-acre soybean, wheat and corn farm. Suffering from a skin condition and fed up with...