Wheat
Monday’s Crop Progress shows 30 point delays in both corn and soybean harvest in Minnesota.
See all of the report data, coverage and analysis of USDA’s Oct. 10 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) and Crop Production reports.
Rain, snow delay harvesting in Saskatchewan, Alberta.
The shortage of durum, which has the hardest texture of all classes of wheat, contrasts with gains in other grain supplies.
The spring wheat harvest in South Dakota continued to lag far behind the five-year average as below-normal temperatures persisted throughout the state.
Ideal growing conditions this summer led to higher-than-normal yields for most crops, according to Statistics Canada.
High wheat yields begin with a solid foundation coupled with a sound understanding of what needs to be accomplished throughout the growing season.
Don’t let those fields sit idle. Use harvest as an excuse to improve your land for future use.
Here’s the advice Mark Gold of Top Third Ag Marketing gave farmers at 2013 Corn College in Coldwater, Mich. He spoke with Farm Journal Radio’s Pam Fretwell.
The U.S. drought monitor shows a softening drought footprint in areas of the U.S., but unfortunately much of the High Plains and other prime spring wheat production areas are still plagued with severe water deficits.