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Wheat growers have had a rough go the last couple of years with low prices and the least amount of acres planted in nearly a century.
Wheat exports seem to be robust despite record world wheat supplies and a relatively strong dollar, according to the USDA.
Global wheat stocks have been dwindling due to a worse than expected Indian crop and an “off” Ukranian crop, according to Jim Bower of Bower Trading on Market Rally Radio.
In 2016, wheat farmers have seen ugly circumstances, now they’re trying to help the problem by reducing acreage.
It’s no secret that wheat is struggling in Oklahoma and Texas.
Months after Hurricane Harvey dumped feet of rain on Houston and Texas, economists with the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service are totaling up the damages caused by the summer storm, now believed to be a combined $200 million between livestock, hay, feed, cotton, rice and soybeans.
Cotton harvest 2017 is underway in the nation’s top cotton growing state, Texas.
Over the last several weeks, cotton prices have seen a decent run in prices. Ashley Arrington, founder of AgriAuthority, told AgDay host Clinton Griffiths cotton markets can be “dramatic at times, especially in relation to the July contract.”
Cotton planting is on pace for 2017, just one point behind the five-year average in the nation’s top cotton producing states, according to the USDA.
Cotton markets usually aren’t discussed at the AgDay agribusiness desk. John Payne of Daniels Trading is discussing the cotton rally and the opportunities to market the crop.