Bryan said 2007 is an unlucky year for Missouri wheat crops to be harmed because many farmers are relying heavily on the high prices being projected for wheat. Overnight temperatures Monday were projected to dip below freezing for the sixth consecutive night before finally warming up mid-day today. Some of the wheat in Southeast Missouri is at the flag leaf stage, meaning the seed head is ready to pop out, Bryan said. Roger Schwab of Jackson has been farming for 32 years and says he still...

The push towards renewable fuels like corn-based ethanol has pumped up corn prices all winter, but the effect of USDA's planting intentions announcement last week has since put a damper on the corn market. Spring wheat acreage is expected to fall by 1.1 million acres. With these acreage numbers, there is less worry that there won't be enough corn to go around. The rest of the additional acreage is coming from cotton acres and marginal ground that's not been farmed in recent years. Van...

While this demand figure has been talked about for some time and should already be factored into prices, the market will have to maintain these prices levels or ending stocks will tighten further. The Prairie Star: Columnists The Prairie Star. The planted acreage report has the potential to be a shocker and a major market mover as a planted acreage figure under the trade estimate of 87-88 million acres will be explosive as prices will need to rally in a last ditch effort to attract more...

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Similarly, the production of cereals and many other agricultural crops will see a substantial fall, he said. In case of winter temperature rise by just 0.5 degrees Celsius, the per hectare wheat production will fall by 0.45 tonnes. What's worse, he said, was that the total agricultural land will reduce and land may not remain suitable to grow the present crops in the future. Terming the government's response to be inadequate he sought more India oriented research on climate change impacts...