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Today’s agriculture headlines and expert perspectives serving farmers, ranchers, crop consultants, livestock nutritionists and the entire U.S. ag community.
Wheat in Chicago fell the most in two weeks after Japan suspended imports from the U.S., where an unapproved, genetically modified strain was discovered in an Oregon field.
Pro Farmer’s weighted Crop Condition Index & Palmer Drought Index maps are included.
Pro Farmer’s weighted Crop Condition Index & Palmer Drought Index maps are included.
Pro Farmer’s weighted Crop Condition Index and Palmer Drought Index maps are included.
Pro Farmer’s weighted Crop Condition Index and Palmer Drought Index maps are included.
Farm Journal had a chance to talk with Von Bergen about his farming background as well as his aspirations for NAWG this coming year.
Pro Farmer’s weighted Crop Condition Index and Palmer Drought Index maps are included.
Pro Farmer’s weighted Crop Condition Index and Palmer Drought Index maps are included.
Late-week precip expected in southeastern Plains and the Mid-South.
State-by-state breakdown of Pro Farmer’s weighted Crop Condition Index shows condition in all HRW wheat states below year-ago.
Wheat rose to the highest in almost five weeks on speculation that U.S. farmers will plant fewer acres with spring varieties due to cold weather.
Wheat rose for a second day in Chicago, extending a rebound from a nine-month low on concern frost in the U.S. hurt the winter crop and as wet weather may delay spring planting.
Those yield gains would occur with the first commercial product, which the company is developing via conventional and biotechnology approaches.
State-by-state crop and weather report details.
EU Commission released short-term outlook.
The historic 2012 drought is far from over, but it has at least subsided in parts of the country.
Scarce stocks could send prices soaring or crashing just as they did in 2008 and 2009, when prices rose to record-highs only to crash following the Great Recession.
Even though stocks are declining, supply remains secure worldwide.
Chip Flory and Brian Grete discuss the wheat market in this week’s Pro Farmer Profit Briefing.
Wheat production to be down 26% from last season.
Among other benefits, the project multiplies the number of available genetic markers that plant breeders can use to improve drought tolerance.
Virtually no rain has been seen for a month in southern Kansas, Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle.
Two storm systems eased drought across the contiguous U.S.
But small by-class adjustments are made to projected exports and stocks.
Stocks of wheat, barley and canola were down from year-ago.