With fertilizer prices for farmers up 30 percent from a year ago and crop nutrients in tight supply, homeowners can expect to see a significant, although smaller, bump in costs for lawn and garden products this spring, experts say. Corn prices have doubled in recent months, helping farmers decide to devote up to 12 million more acres to the grain -- and sending suppliers such as The Andersons inc. scrambling to meet fertilizer demand, said Dennis Addis, president of the Maumee, Ohio-based...

Fruit crops aren't the only crops to be suffering as a result of the below freezing temperatures the past five nights. She looked at samples over the weekend and says the growth point of the crop has some damage, but the question is to what extent. Weiss says for fields that are new plantings this spring, you'll probably have a hard time finding plants that survived the cold because they were too tender. Weiss says if farmers want to take in the crop early because of the damage, it cannot...

Area crops and gardens could be in danger if temperatures fall below freezing during the next couple of days. Wheat is nearing its harvest time and is at an important point in its development, but it is a hardy plant. Corn plants with less than six leaves on them still have their growing tips below the ground and will be protected, Erwin said. One natural defense the young plants have going for them is that with the recent warm temperatures, the ground is still very warm. Though the plants...

Crops on the cusp of spring bloom have been met with an arctic chill that is making Midwest growers uneasy about eventual harvests for foods all over the pyramid. Advertisement Wheat growers were studying temperature readings and crop costs to decide whether to keep their crops or switch to corn. Still, extra wheat that was planted last fall may not yield as much as originally thought, and farmers switching to corn won't plant until next month. Wheat plants tolerate cold weather well over...

A new germplasm line of durum wheat, dubbed DGE-1, is now available for geneticists and researchers to use in the fight against the fungus Fusarium graminearum, which causes scab disease. Scab, also known as Fusarium head blight, can substantially diminish the grain yield and quality of durum, or macaroni wheat, which is used to make pasta and semolina. Unchecked, the Fusarium fungus infects wheat heads, causing the kernels to shrivel up and turn chalky white. Screening under greenhouse...

revealed confusion that points to serious problems in the regulation of China's exports and its dismal record on food safety. There has been no reaction among the Chinese public to the tainted wheat gluten, and Beijing authorities have not said whether they are investigating the matter. Most of the company's wheat gluten is sold to domestic Chinese buyers, Li said, refusing to say whether the allegedly contaminated batches were sold in China. pet food, raising the possibility that more of...

Kentucky permitted to use fungicide to combat certain disease in wheat. A maximum of one application may be made using ground or aerial equipment at a rate of 4 fluid ounces of formulation per acre per season. The products may be applied as a preventive foliar spray when the earliest disease appears on the stem. Data indicate that Fusarium head blight suppression with these products results in higher wheat yields, Hershman said. Applications may not be made within 30 days of harvest....

The monopoly wheat exporter was disgraced last year after the Cole report found it breached UN sanctions by paying $300 million in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's regime, in exchange for access to Iraqi wheat markets. The meeting will precede a cabinet decision on whether to retain the single desk system of wheat marketing, held by AWB. Howard to review AWB's future . PerthNow Welcome to PerthNow. Parliament passed legislation in December stripping AWB of its veto power over wheat exports,...

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