That is the reason that sugar millers wish to keep the wheat price around Rs450 per 40 kg while the government agencies including the provincial price commissions, Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock (Minfal) and the Federal Agriculture Price Commission want it at least Rs500. Punjab s share in national wheat production is greater than any of the other three provinces, but the wheat statistics reveal no increase in yield for the last seven years. The additional land from sugarcane...

He said that domestic prices were half the international prices, so most growers in Pakistan were not bringing wheat into the market, thinking that they can sell it at a better price across the border. Farmers in Pakistan, the world s sixth-largest wheat consumer, will harvest 24 million tons of the grain in the marketing year that started on July 1, up 3 per cent from last year s record of 23. In the international market, wheat price has been rising since mid-summer when it became...

After losing early corn and wheat crops to a late Easter freeze, farmers now are harvesting cotton crops often producing less than one-half their normal yields. Moore said this year's overall statewide cotton production is estimated to reach just 780,000 total bales, down 44 percent from last year. HUNTER nhunter@jacksonsun.com Tony Williamson pulled the few strands of cotton fiber from a heat-cracked boll and shook his head in disgust. Lower cotton yields throughout Tennessee could...

Although some can offer convincing arguments that global demand growth is outstripping our ability to produce some commodities, the short answer to the question is we have not entered a new era of permanently higher commodity prices and prices will fall, but probably not to previous levels because production costs have risen. Although some can offer convincing arguments that global demand growth is outstripping our ability to produce some commodities, the short answer to the question is we...

A United Nations expert has condemned the growing use of crops to produce biofuels as a replacement for petrol as a crime against humanity. But the trend has contributed to a sharp rise in food prices as farmers, particularly in the US, switch production from wheat and soya to corn, which is then turned into ethanol. It was, he said, a crime against humanity to divert arable land to the production of crops which are then burned for fuel. Within that time, according to Mr Ziegler,...

NAGPUR: India's edible oils imports may cross 12 million tonnes by 2015 from 5.5 million tonnes now, if oilseeds production in the country is not raised, a trade industry member said on Saturday. But stagnating local production would mean more imports would be needed, Jain added. India's edible oil demand is likely to touch 20 million tonnes by 2015, up from the current demand of about 13 million tonnes as population rises, said Davish Jain, chairman of Central Organisation for Oil...

wheat prices projected for the 2007-2008 growing year, farmers in Morehouse Parish are preparing seedbeds for what may be the biggest wheat crop in local history. Based on its 2007 test results, LSU recommends 16 varieties of wheat available on the commercial seed market and best suited to north Louisiana soil and climate. Wheat has been a staple of the human diet since the ancient Egyptians began cultivating amber waves of grain in the fertile Nile River Valley. Jason Stutts, who is...

Research is progressing quickly, he said, "and in five years it will be possible to make biofuel and biodiesel from agricultural waste" rather than wheat, corn, sugar cane and other food crops. Ziegler, the UN's independent expert on the right to food, called for a five-year moratorium on biofuel production to halt what he called a growing "catastrophe" for the poor. Jean Ziegler said the practice is creating food shortages and price jumps that cause millions of poor people to go hungry....

The futures market forecasts that the price of wheat will stay strong, but not at the level being seen now. I thought their stadium design was incredibly strange with their team having to pass right by the opposing fans every game and that the seats were the most crowded, most uncomfortable I'd ever seen. National agriculture forecasters warn that at some point the country's supply of wheat will not meet the demand. With the recent wet weather, soybean and milo harvesting has been hit and miss.