According to Erica Peterson, marketing specialist for the North Dakota Wheat Commission, the wheat futures market has been receding a little the past couple weeks, although Minneapolis futures have fared better than the Chicago or Kansas City futures markets. According to Erica Peterson, marketing specialist for the North Dakota Wheat Commission, the wheat futures market has been receding a little the past couple weeks, although Minneapolis futures have fared better than the Chicago or...

Commodities markets responded to the larger-than-anticipated corn plantings, with corn prices quickly dropping 20 cents a bushel, hitting the limit and stopping trading for the day, said Mike Woolverton, grain marketing economist at Kansas State University. Commodities markets responded to the larger-than-anticipated corn plantings, with corn prices quickly dropping 20 cents a bushel, hitting the limit and stopping trading for the day, said Mike Woolverton, grain marketing economist at...

During recent months, the Colorado Wheat Administra-tive Committee (CWAC) has searched to understand the opinions and needs of Colorado wheat growers via a grower survey, town hall meetings and most recently two public hearings held by the commissioner of the Colorado Department of Agriculture (CDA) During recent months, the Colorado Wheat Administra-tive Committee (CWAC) has searched to understand the opinions and needs of Colorado wheat growers via a grower survey, town hall meetings and...

The survey, undertaken by the department of agriculture, gives an indication of the intentions of commercial farmers to plant winter crops as at the end of February 2007. Low estimates on winter wheat crop. The first estimate is based on replies received from a sample of producers for the expected area planted to wheat for the 2007 production season. The new provincial boundaries, as indicated by the municipal demarcation board in March 2006, have been taken into account for the estimate...

The increase in the size of Wisconsin's winter wheat crop since 2000 took place while the number of acres of winter wheat planted nationwide dropped from 62. Winter wheat can be grown in Wisconsin even though its farm fields freeze during the winter because the crop goes dormant after initial growth in the fall, Gaska said. The main reason for the reduction in winter wheat planting and production nationally is a switch toward corn and soybeans, which are treated more favorably under...