Lodged wheat, which is wheat that has fallen over, is also a major problem. Even producers in the panhandle, who have not had as much rain as the rest of the state, are hoping that the skies will soon clear up. He said the rain has definitely delayed the harvest at least for a couple of days, which is not good when only 25 percent the crop has been cut. Hodges said lodged wheat can also hit producer s pocketbooks since it takes more fuel to cut and thrash fallen wheat. Recent storms have...

It increases the rate in which we can convert wheat to flour, we are dealing with an international market," said Rollingston. And so there continues to be a shift to ethanol as an alternative in helping to produce wheat on acreages. He says the company has only been able to muster a meager 10 percent margin markup when it considers all of its products in the manufacturing sector. Losses have also been due to increases in general production/operational costs in the international market. The...

Targeting $1 billion If the spring wheat crop fares well through the summer, the state might see its first $1 billion wheat crop this year, the state's agricultural statistician said. Big crops in Montana While the weather is beating up on the winter wheat crops on the Southern Plains and around the world, Montana's producers are looking at an enhanced forecast for winter wheat production to go with the sharply higher prices in the markets. Big crops in Montana While the weather is beating...

It's the third straight year in which western Canada wheat producers have faced "significant obstacles" during spring seeding, said Bruce Burnett, the CWB's director of weather and crop surveillance. At the same time, wet seeding conditions in central and northern areas of Saskatchewan and Alberta have boosted CWB expectations for the 2007-08 barley crop in western Canada to 12. Burnett added worldwide wheat production will climb to 615 million tonnes this year from 594 million tonnes in...

MOUTHS TO FEED: The development of BT cotton helped to turn India into a net cotton exporter, but some critics say the focus should be on food crops AFP, BANGALORE, INDIA Monday, Jun 18, 2007, Page 11 Metahelix Life Sciences, a biotech firm founded by five Indian scientists in 2001, says it is doing research that may lead to the development of insect-protected rice and high-yield corn. MOUTHS TO FEED: The development of BT cotton helped to turn India into a net cotton exporter, but some...

Because of recent freeze insurance claims in OK and heavy rains in the Plains, the USDA could decrease this year's hard red wheat harvested acres by 400,000 acres when its re-surveys producers this month. S winter wheat index has declined 16 points the last few weeks to near this year's lowest value at 340-as early harvest reports last week were lower-than-expected in both the Southern Plains and the Delta. Recent dryness and high temperatures in WA and OR also caused ratings to slip,...

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Now, wheat growers can t get in the fields to harvest because of heavy rains. Anderson said he figured about 30 percent of the wheat around Garber had been cut, but he said that 30 percent represents about 70 percent of the total crop that will be harvested. Some of the wheat is so low to the ground, it can t be picked up to harvest. She estimated about 50 percent of the area s wheat has been harvested. It also said one quarter of the state s wheat crop had been harvested by last Sunday a...

winter-wheat producer, 25 percent of the crop was harvested as of June 10 compared with 76 percent a year earlier and a five-year average of 45 percent, the USDA said. As much as three times normal moisture fell in parts of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas in the past month, turning fields to mud and making them impassable for heavy machinery. Today's gains in wheat were limited by midday weather reports that said National Weather Service models showed less rain will fall in the southern Plains...