Now farmers sit and wait for their fields to dry so they can get the last of their crops out, to till, and to fertilize. The plus side for area farmers is 75 percent of the corn is already out and only about five percent of the soybeans remain. Some farmers may have to wait until it freezes to finish the fall harvest. Crop yields were affected due to the lack of rain in critical developmental stages of corn and beans. Harvest woes - Wet fields holds harvest back for some farmers. If winter...

Louisiana, among the nation's top 10 cotton producing states, is expected to yield its biggest corn crop on record this year, after higher prices prompted many farmers to plant much, if not all, of their cotton acres to corn. Gins could go out of business, and if the shift became more permanent, there could be a restructuring of agriculture in the state, with grain and row crops -- wheat, corn, soybeans -- gaining greater ground, he said. But the crop year hasn't yielded all bad news: by...

SUGAR LAND, TX--(Marketwire - November 5, 2007) - Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Cooperative-owned Green Plains Renewable Energy Incorporated is preparing for the massive Iowa corn harvest this season and expects to be grinding this year's corn crop in months to come. SUGAR LAND, TX--(Marketwire - November 5, 2007) - Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Cooperative-owned Green Plains Renewable Energy Incorporated is preparing for...

Corn farmers are pushing for more ethanol production as the industry creates an enormous new market for their crop, giving corn prices the kind of lift they have not seen in years. The Mexican government this week put a cap on tortilla prices after prices shot up between 20 and 30 percent over uncertainty that there would be enough U. Markets Ethanol boom, rising corn prices divide farm lobbyists. Meat, dairy, and other food producers are pushing back against the ethanol boom as higher...

This means his cows are now almost exclusively range fed, as he said he doesn't buy a lot of grain since corn prices skyrocketed. While federal milk marketing orders set minimum revenue via subsidies, last November this only raised dairy farmers' income by 44 cents per 100 weight of milk. When corn came into high demand it not only raised grain costs, but also caused many crop farmers to plant corn in fields where they had previously seeded hay. Since then, as local retail milk prices edge...

All the grain markets, but especially corn, seem to get its price action from the outside markets and investment funds, instead of weather and S&D estimates, but that isn?t uncommon this time of the year. We look for the corn market to open lower this morning and look for direction from the outside markets and investment funds. This will have a material affect on prices, but it should be fleeting and just shows the power of the investment funds on the grain markets. With little to no new...