Iraq has tendered to buy a nominal 50,000 tonnes of hard milling wheat with shipment sought in June or July to the port of Umm Qasr. Official bidding closed on May 30.

Consumer demand for manufactured products remains strong as evidenced by the industrial production data. It has raised interest rates five times since last June and raised banks' reserve requirements three times since December to rein in inflation and credit growth. To check prices of food grains, which have risen at almost twice the pace of manufactured product costs over the past year, the government removed the import duty on lentils in June 2006, and on wheat in September. The...

Four days of debate stretched into wrangles that lasted throughout the final night, and IPCC Chair Rajendra Pachauri of the Energy Research Institute in New Delhi, India, confided at the concluding press conference that he was wearing the same clothes he'd put on the morning before. Considering how much trouble two people have deciding what movie to see, the most remarkable thing about a new set of global-climate predictions may be that it exists at all. Four days of debate stretched into...

Both of those problems made the wheat susceptible to disease and insect damage. Roberts says yields have ranged from 15 to 30 bushels per acre and test weights have been anywhere from 45 to 60 pounds per bushel. He says the poor quality can be blamed on the April freeze as well as too much moisture. Sumner County Agriculture Extension Agent Johnny Roberts says area producers are finding smaller yields and lower test weights. For station contact purpose only. First Name: Location: Enter...

New Delhi June 17 With international wheat prices scaling new peaks, the Centre is caught in a cleft stick over its planned 20 lakh tonne (lt) import tender by the month-end. The trigger for the present bullishness has been a US Department of Agriculture report, released earlier in the week, projecting global year-ending wheat stocks for 2007-08 at 112. This, in turn, is attributed to the drought in Ukraine and an abnormally hot spring in Russia, along with concerns of crop damage due to...