You can expect to see wheat farmers to smiling over the next few months thanks to a recent spike in prices. Analysts say that the current wheat prices will entice farmers to plant more wheat which means that prices will eventually fall. The jump is coming for the most part because of bad weather in the world's wheat growing regions but also because farmers in the U. Montana wheat farmers benefiting from price spike. On Friday at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange spring wheat for September...

However, the higher corn prices may be negative for some of the livestock producers that will have to bid for corn against ethanol plants and foreign exports. Generally, the growth of the ethanol industry likely will reduce the amount of corn available for exports or livestock feed. In a short crop year, the potential is for very strong corn prices as ethanol plants and other corn-dependent industries bid for limited stocks. The question for the industry is how many more acres will switch...

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That's because farmers expect to harvest 3.78 million acres of corn for grain, up 28 percent from the 2.96 million acres harvested last year. His family farms several thousand acres, including 600 acres of vegetables that are sold to major chain stores and to food-service companies. Ohio farmers are expected to produce more corn than ever this year, despite lower yields per acre due to spotty drought conditions, according to forecasts from the U. Demand for ethanol, a fuel made from corn,...

IT is indeed quite alarming that Nepal, which once was an exporter of food grains, has now turned into an importer of the same. The agricultural production over the span of twenty years has not been able to keep abreast with the burgeoning population. This was accompanied by an increasing trend in the ratio of agriculture import to agricultural export. There has been a decreasing trend in per capita food grain production over the years. The population growth rate in the early eighties...

The industry only wants high-quality corn to feed its babies. Grain quality experts say the rapid birth of the ethanol industry is changing the way producers and elevators store crops. Instead of farmers emptying bins months before harvest, ethanol plants want producers to store grain until combines roll again in the fall. If farmers and elevators deliver sub-par corn, it is spit out. Corn should contain no more than 16 percent moisture before going into the bin, experts recommend, but 15...

Girma Belachew, a grain trader in the Mesalemiya area, the major grain market in Addis Ababa, said that the reason for the price decline on some of the grains could be the end of the rainy season. And better access to loans provided by micro-finance institutions enable farmers to sell agricultural products for better prices," Sufian said. Though the prices of some cereals were going down, there are others whose price has increased. Sufian said the construction of roads enables farmers to...

What do you think has happened to the cost of mealie pap for malnourished Africans? There are those who think corn to fuel is not only earth unfriendly, it is immoral. Converting corn to fuel has raised the price of food for all of us, including our poor. The copyright laws prohibit any copying, redistributing, re-transmitting, or re-purposing of any copyright-protected material. More Everybody's Column Stories. The information you receive online from The Buffalo News is protected by the...

The labyrinth, an annual benefit for the Lynden FFA, spans 14 acres of 10-foot high corn stalks. It was their first time coming to the maze, a fundraising project that is open on weekends through the end of September. The maze s intricate design, which includes several crafty tulipshaped loops and even an enormous FFA, kept many patrons turned around as the maze went into its second weekend. It s really hard to supervise 14 acres of corn. After the event, the corn is used for cattle feed....