NEW YORK - Commodities prices declined broadly Tuesday as the oil market relinquished its early gains and the weakness spilled into the precious metals market. Lead surged nearly 4 percent on the LME to another record high after the world's second-largest lead refiner, Doe Run co., announced sharp production cutbacks at a Missouri refinery that suffered an explosion on Friday, according to a Dow Jones Newswires report. A barrel of crude oil briefly reached an 11-month high on Tuesday, then...

Though not a well-known handicraft like cross stitching or knitting, wheat weaving is a folk art that has been around for ages. It has become engrained in our society -- used for food, alcoholic beverage production and even homebuilding. In early European, Asian and South American civilizations, straw art objects were created to please the crop spirits and encourage healthy harvests. Texler weaves an array of decorative wheat objects, including wall hangings, wreaths, house blessings and...

Her husband, John, is serving in Iraq, and the combines they'd lined up to cut their wheat weren't coming after all. Trying to line up another harvest crew was proving to be very frustrating until neighbors and friends stepped in. Sure enough, four combines, five trucks and neighbors arrived for harvest. The Shillington family donated coolers filled with soda. MAX Verna Lemon was up a creek without a custom cutter. And those gifts are our friends and neighbors. Verna said she was waiting...

In a sense, the fact that people have become so complacent about having a plentiful food supply is itself a testament to his accomplishment revolutionizing the production of basic foodstuffs, and in the process proving wrong better-known scientists such as Dr. Print Article This is a printer friendly version of an article from www.washingtontimes.com To print this article open the file menu and choose Print. Print Article This is a printer friendly version of an article from...

The wheat has now been harvested and taken to seed companies. Most of personal incomes will go for those two items, and for those two items, and that means less cars, less trucks, less clothing" Mayfield says some areas managed to avoid the freeze, like extreme southern Arkansas, Louisiana, and parts of Mississippi. This means there could be a shortage and about 5 percent of the business's seed is turned back to the farmer for the next year's planting. I'm not surprise though, that he/she...

A whirlwind that will turn EU farming upside down The Times Like a combine harvester charging through a field of wheat, market forces are tearing up and shredding the rules of the Common Agricultural Policy, sending civil servants scurrying for cover like disturbed field mice. A whirlwind that will turn EU farming upside down The Times Like a combine harvester charging through a field of wheat, market forces are tearing up and shredding the rules of the Common Agricultural Policy, sending...

USDA said 68% of Nebraska s wheat crop has been combined, with harvest in southern portions of the state wrapping up. While that s down from the prior week, USDA pointed out that s still a lot better than this week last year, when 53% of Nebraska soybeans rated good-to-excellent. As for crop conditions, dryland corn in Nebraska rated 61% good to excellent. Feature Programs & Commentary. Nebraska wheat harvest makes progress Monday, July 16, 2007, 4:19 PM by Peter Shinn Nebraska s wheat...

June 26 (Bloomberg) -- Farmers in western Canada planted the fewest acres of spring wheat in 37 years after poor weather and expectations of higher prices for oilseeds prompted a switch to other crops, a survey shows. Canola acreage increased 17 percent from a year earlier to a record 14. The most-active contract has risen 32 percent in the past year. Canadian Farmers Plant Least Spring Wheat in 37 Years (Update3) By Christopher Donville and Theophilos Argitis. A smaller Canadian wheat...

Kulmbacher also owns the Monchshof and EKU brands, and the Kapuziner line is made up of no fewer than six wheat beers regular, crystal, schwarz, winter, light and non-alcohol. The schwarz weiss is as smooth and tasty a beer as you can get in any color, once again showing that dark beers get the shaft from many American consumers who don t understand that a dark-colored beer simply means that some of the grains used have been roasted longer. The schwarz weiss is as smooth and tasty a beer...