Also, the weekly export inspections release came out this morning and inspected corn shipments for last week came in at 29. It's obviously no surprise that we going to get the crop planted, but there are several questions that remain surrounding weather developments, acres, yield prospects, etc And only time is going to reveal the answers to these questions. This seems to be just another reminder on how US demand is expected to slump, as the South American crop comes on-line and begins to...

In any case, according to Wall Street Journal sources, employing ethanol to reduce greenhouse gasses is fantastically inefficient, and costs probably as much as 16 times the optimal abatement cost for removing a ton of carbon from the atmosphere (January 27) When corn ethanol is burned, the co2 released is composed of carbon that was already pulled out of the atmosphere by the corn plant. In any case, according to Wall Street Journal sources, employing ethanol to reduce greenhouse gasses...

Now he's hoping to salvage a harvest from his 800 acres that had been thriving from a stretch of warm temperatures until the sudden turnaround sent temperatures plunging. Western Kentucky farmer Scott Wilferd's wheat crop was shaping up as one of his best until a late freeze turned lush fields into a patchwork of damaged plants. Most of the peach and apple crops were ruined, central Kentucky vineyards took a beating, blueberry and blackberry producers suffered damage and a Carlisle County...

By Marianne Stigset and Tom Cahill Bloomberg News Published: April 10, 2007 E-Mail Article Listen to Article Printer-Friendly 3-Column Format Translate Share Article Add to Clippings Text Size LONDON: Corn investors are gleeful about the first bear market in two years. By Marianne Stigset and Tom Cahill Bloomberg News Published: April 10, 2007 E-Mail Article Listen to Article Printer-Friendly 3-Column Format Translate Share Article Add to Clippings Text Size LONDON: Corn investors are...

exports will be shut out of foreign markets, the U. Such scrutiny is a fact of life in worldwide trade, and ignoring it in the ongoing revision of farming legislation is not wise, he said. Northwest Arkansas' poultry and cattle farms have encountered sharply increased grain prices as more grain goes into alternative fuels, such as ethanol. Corn and rice policies are under examination by the group, too, he said. Johanns, a former governor of Nebraska, is drafting the administration's farm...