wheat prices projected for the 2007-2008 growing year, farmers in Morehouse Parish are preparing seedbeds for what may be the biggest wheat crop in local history. Based on its 2007 test results, LSU recommends 16 varieties of wheat available on the commercial seed market and best suited to north Louisiana soil and climate. Wheat has been a staple of the human diet since the ancient Egyptians began cultivating amber waves of grain in the fertile Nile River Valley. Jason Stutts, who is...

Research is progressing quickly, he said, "and in five years it will be possible to make biofuel and biodiesel from agricultural waste" rather than wheat, corn, sugar cane and other food crops. Ziegler, the UN's independent expert on the right to food, called for a five-year moratorium on biofuel production to halt what he called a growing "catastrophe" for the poor. Jean Ziegler said the practice is creating food shortages and price jumps that cause millions of poor people to go hungry....

The futures market forecasts that the price of wheat will stay strong, but not at the level being seen now. I thought their stadium design was incredibly strange with their team having to pass right by the opposing fans every game and that the seats were the most crowded, most uncomfortable I'd ever seen. National agriculture forecasters warn that at some point the country's supply of wheat will not meet the demand. With the recent wet weather, soybean and milo harvesting has been hit and miss.

Lederer Republished from The Independent Millions starve to keep the gas price down A UN expert yesterday called the growing practice of turning crops into biofuel a crime against humanity because it has created food shortages and sent food prices soaring, leaving millions of poor people hungry. Lederer Republished from The Independent Millions starve to keep the gas price down A UN expert yesterday called the growing practice of turning crops into biofuel a crime against humanity because...

Any shortage of this key phosphatic fertiliser at this stage can jeopardise the production prospects of wheat, among other rabi crops. Whatever the causes, only a part of the needed 3 million tonnes of imported DAP may actually land at Indian ports in time for the rabi crop planting. To compound the problem, the domestic production of DAP has been relatively low this year due to policy uncertainties and problems in procuring phosphoric acid. While the wheat harvest could be hit by a DAP...

Across Iowa, the total acres of "potential habitat" (ground planted with hay, oats or wheat or enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program) dwindled by 30 percent from 1990 to 2005. The president of the South Dakota Corn Utilization Council, who is both a farmer and a pheasant hunting guide, published a scathing op-ed last month in a Sioux Falls newspaper accusing "Chicken Littles" in his state of "outrageously blaming corn and ethanol for declining pheasant numbers" when, in reality,...