Dairy farmers have failed to keep pace with a 3 percent increase in annual milk consumption, according to Rabobank Groep in the Netherlands, the world's biggest agricultural lender. Raghuveera Reddy, agriculture minister for Andhra Pradesh, an east Indian state of more than 75 million people, said rising milk costs ''will have an impact'' on the country's consumers. Reduced subsidies eliminated milk surpluses in Europe and slowed production growth in the U. Production needed to bring...

With the rapid change on Rathdrum Prairie, the age of the bluegrass farmer may be passing, said Meyer, 57, one of the mainstays of the local farming community. Butch Otter asked all parties to submit to negotiations, including clean-air groups that had sued to stop the grass- field burning, claiming the billowing smoke violates the Clean Air Act and hurts people's health, especially those with breathing problems. Butch Otter asked all parties to submit to negotiations, including clean-air...

Only four domestic gluten manufacturers, including two in Kansas, have survived the flood of foreign wheat gluten bought here in the last decade at prices cheaper than U. imports roughly 80 percent of its wheat gluten from Australia, the European Union and China, where the contaminated wheat gluten behind the recent pet food recall is believed to have originated, according to figures from the National Association of Wheat Growers. imports roughly 80 percent of its wheat gluten from...

Montana growers seeded more acres with winter wheat last fall, than they did a year earlier. Total production of winter wheat in the state is projected at just over 88 (m) million bushels, up seven percent from last year. The service says that based on May first conditions, growers project yields of 41 bushels an acre, down two percent from the final yield in 2006. All post and comments are subject to review and filtering by the KXNet.com Webmaster - Any posts containing offensive...

The portion of the winter wheat crop rated good to excellent on April 29, at 56 percent, was 20 percentage points above last year. Fewer planted acres due to wet conditions in the fall coupled with the April freeze damage is expected to result in fewer harvested acres across the central and northern portions of the SRW region. Expected harvested area and yield are up significantly in Oklahoma and Texas compared with last year's drought stricken crop. Harvested area across the southern...