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Rains are needed to stimulate nodal root development
Agronomists urge early scouting of fields.
Hot, dry forecasts are causing alarm in the grain markets. Will the upcoming weather singe the early-planted crops? Jerry Gulke discusses.
USDA crop progress and condition report highlights.
Pending CFTC approval, new trading hours will begin no later than Sunday, June 3.
Leaves all other estimates unchanged.
Rains along Mexico’s Gulf Coast benefit soil moisture.
Timely rains benefited safrinha corn crop in Brazil.
Find out what you need to know and how you should be positioned going into tomorrow’s reports.
Leaves all other estimates unchanged.
FAO’s Food Price Index fell three point from last month.
New estimate is 2.5 MMT above USDA’s current peg.
Pegs 2012 winter wheat crop at 1.656 billion bushels.
Expanded trading hours begin May 14, 2012.
To assess the impact of freezing temperatures on emerged corn, check plants about 5 days after the freezing injury occurred .
Look for corn to continue to gain on wheat over the next several weeks.
Now that it’s April, is there any reason to wait much longer to start planting?
Corn planting running ahead of average pace.
When corn growers start planting this spring, they’ll probably keep planting corn until they’ve seeded nearly 96 million acres.
See the data, read the biggest news and listen to analysis of today’s Prospective Plantings and Grain Stocks reports.
La Nina continued to weaken in March.
Corn, soybean and wheat stocks came in below expectations.
Planting intentions are near “perfectly opposite” to pre-report trade expectations.
Corn acreage may climb to 95 million acres this spring. Then again, maybe not.
Read the latest news and listen to analysis of the upcoming March 30 Grain Stocks and Prospective Plantings reports.
Says Brazilian bean crop will be a big disappointment.
Corn sales were within expectations while wheat sales disappointed.
Says it will take two or three years before Mexico recovers from drought.
Sees corn, soybeans and all wheat acres up from 2011.
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