Now, wheat growers can t get in the fields to harvest because of heavy rains. Anderson said he figured about 30 percent of the wheat around Garber had been cut, but he said that 30 percent represents about 70 percent of the total crop that will be harvested. Some of the wheat is so low to the ground, it can t be picked up to harvest. She estimated about 50 percent of the area s wheat has been harvested. It also said one quarter of the state s wheat crop had been harvested by last Sunday a...

winter-wheat producer, 25 percent of the crop was harvested as of June 10 compared with 76 percent a year earlier and a five-year average of 45 percent, the USDA said. As much as three times normal moisture fell in parts of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas in the past month, turning fields to mud and making them impassable for heavy machinery. Today's gains in wheat were limited by midday weather reports that said National Weather Service models showed less rain will fall in the southern Plains...

Weather forecasts through May 10 indicate the crop will get planted at about an average pace, therefore the market is slowly removing weather premium from prices. Our spring wheat crop is currently being seeded and producers will finish in May. This is when seasonal price trends turn lower as the market prepares for the impending winter wheat harvest. WHEAT Wheat futures have rallied sharply so far in the month of April due to frost damage that occurred over the Easter weekend. Producers...

Maryland farmers have until the end of the month to sign up for $8 million in state money earmarked to pay for winter cover crops. The program, administered through local Soil Conservation Districts and managed by the Maryland Agricultural Water Quality Cost-Share Program (MACS), is designed to encourage farmers to plant grains such as barley, wheat and rye on fields after their summer crops are harvested. Carroll County Times: Westminster, Maryland , The program, administered through...

Most farmers would like to see the rain cease for a few weeks so they can harvest crops, but only wheat producers seem to be feeling an immediate pinch. The overall consensus is the corn and grain crops are above-average, and wheat just depends on the ability to get in the fields. It s been a good spring for grain and corn, area farmers have said, but the cotton s a little late because of the wet stuff, Crawford said. The bounty of rain is a marked improvement over the recent drought...