By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network
Weather problems are now thought to be factored into market prices. ...
By Roger Meissen, University of Missouri Cooperative Media Group
Farmers will soon have a new variety of wheat that promises high yields and excellent qualities in milling....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Huge soybean crops in North America and South America could push world inventories higher and prices lower in 2010, according to a market analyst speaking at the CME Group press briefing on USDA’s Nov. 9 Crop Production Report and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates....
By David Bennett, Farm Press Editorial Staff
During the last week of October, with Arkansas set to lose many millions of dollars due to unprecedented, near season-long wet weather, Arkansas Farm Bureau analysts compiled a report on just how hard-hit the agricultural sector is....
By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network
Weekly soybean export sales were above expectations. Soy oil sales were disappointing this past week. ...
By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network
China reopened imports of pork from the United States, increasing domestic demand for soy meal and feed grain. ...
Electronic trading of Minneapolis Grain Exchange futures and options reached 10,592 contracts yesterday, marking the second highest electronic trading volume in Exchange history....
By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network
Open cotton is vulnerable to rain damage. Harvest is only 20 percent complete. ...
By Mary Hightower, University of Arkansas
Arkansas farmers are planting winter wheat, though with continued rain, expectations for the crop are iffy, say extension agents and economists for the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture....
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
USDA hit U.S. wheat with a major surprise in its Oct. 9 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates, increasing projected U.S. ending stocks for wheat to 864 million bushels....
By Mary Hightower, University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture
Near constant rain has caused between 25 percent and 80 percent damage in some Arkansas cotton, rice and soybean fields as growers struggle to harvest what’s left during brief periods of dry weather, according Extension agents, agronomist and economists with the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture....
By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network
There is some speculation that some crop acres in the United States may not get harvested until next year. ...
By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network
Weather is driving market prices as cotton, corn and soybean yield estimates and quality potential drops. ...
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Gebisa Ejeta says the world will have to increase its production of food more in the next four decades than it has since the dawn of civilization....
By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network
China bought over 800,000 tons of a million tons of soybeans sold last week. ...
By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network
Tariffs on Chinese poultry imports are damaging our commodity export potential to China. ...
By Larry Fugate, University of Arkansas
Arkansas’ wheat acreage may fall to near 2006 levels because of problems associated with this year’s higher than normal rainfall and low commodity prices, according to an agricultural economist for the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture....
Download Mississippi Wheat and Oat Variety Trials published by the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station....
By H. Scott Stiles, Extension Economist, University of Arkansas
As the 2009 crop year moves toward the end of harvest, it also moves toward planting — wheat planting....
By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network
Crop water use in the Delta and Mid-South has dropped below 0.1 inch, telling us that crops are drying down. ...
Rigid, custom-fit foam pieces like those that keep computer monitors firmly in place inside cardboard boxes during shipping could be made with eco-friendly starch from potatoes, wheat or corn, instead of from petroleum, according to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) research plant physiologist Gregory M. Glenn....
By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network
Weather boosted crop maturity with more heat units and USDA crop condition ratings are way above average this week. ...
By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Importing countries are certainly taking a liking to current U.S. soybean prices, a fact reflected in USDA’s Sept. 11 World Supply and Demand Estimate forecasting record U.S. exports this marketing year....
By Ray Nabors, Heartland Ag Network
Bullish factors in the market include the lower dollar values which stimulate increased export demand and the recent rally in gasoline reflects increased demand for oil and ethanol. ...
By Carol Sanders, UAPB School of Agriculture, Fisheries and Human Sciences
Sept. 30 is the deadline for producers of fall-seeded crops to sign up for crop insurance....
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