and Europe applied mild pressure, with expectations for Monday's crop progress report to show improved winter wheat crop rating and a pick up in spring wheat seeding generating light pressure as well, traders said. Two-sided trade was featured as traders took a cautious approach heading into the weekend, looking ahead to Monday's crop conditions report, analysts said. The firm estimated white winter wheat production at 242 million bushels, compared to production of 225. The absence of...

Although specialty crop producers are part of a $53 billion dollar a year industry, they experience lower than average income due to higher energy and labor costs. This means more apples, peaches, cherries and grapes, instead of wheat, sorghum, corn and alfalfa, Hermes added, Historically, program crops have dominated any sort of funding for research. It would encourage educational activities, and bring public awareness about food and human health, said Dennis Moroney, vice president of...

USDA Thursday reported a net decrease in marketings of US soybeans to other countries for the 2006/07 marketing year, as cancellations by China more than offset weekly sales. corn crop as of this past Sunday, which was the ninth-slowest planting pace seen since records began being kept in 1986. Corn-style dynamics were also in play across the soybean market, including delayed spring planting, slow exports, and seasonally slow country movement. The heart of the Corn Belt received more than...

The consensus from the three-day winter wheat tour forecast this season's winter wheat crop at 392. Its forecast is anticipated each season because it usually is the first industry barometer of the expected size of the Kansas winter wheat crop. Kansas seemed on track to harvest as much as 500 million bushels of wheat earlier this spring, but an Easter weekend freeze dashed those hopes. Tour participants found that the severe freeze damage was not as widespread as feared and was...

WHEAT growers say they will be ruined if the Federal Government discards the single-desk wheat export-marketing system. However, new single-desk lobby group the National Grains Alliance says grain producers across the country would be ruined by the removal of the single desk. NGA member Bob Iffla said deregulation of dairying was an example of what would happen to wheat upon removal of the export monopoly. Fear felt by wheat growers. to a not-for-profit company holding the single desk," Mr...