Soybean farmers following wheat production involves a period in which you have just a few weeks to get beans planted or else you are behind the eight ball. A range of between 70 and 75 parts per billion was cited as the new standard. The major problem we have in agriculture is that we have such as narrow window to get our crops back in. Last Thursday, the EPA announced a plan to reduce the ozone levels in the atmosphere by 11 to 17 percent. What could the farmers live with, given the...

Thune says that neither the Senate nor the House is likely to consider parameters of a bill in July, and if serious work is postponed until after the summer recess in August, lawmakers might run out of time in the legislative year and probably will be forced to extend the existing bill. Thune says that neither the Senate nor the House is likely to consider parameters of a bill in July, and if serious work is postponed until after the summer recess in August, lawmakers might run out of time...

Or seeing a few pieces of Greensburg scattered through his wheat field, including a roll of carpet that rests atop one hill of wheat. Despite being in the middle of a wheat field miles from home, it is difficult to forget that life changed two months ago his hometown of Greensburg flattened by an EF5 tornado. Besides trucks filled with rubble, wheat trucks have been bustling through town, jingling onto the local co-op's scales. Before, it was trying to get debris out of the fields in time...

In Canada, "the wheat crop is going to be significantly reduced from previous years because of all the rain that happened in the seeding time, which meant that a lot of central and northern areas couldn't get wheat in the ground and had to switch to barley or oats," she added. The projected increase, which would work out to about 50 cents a bushel,isthe highest that the Winnipeg-based wheat board has predicted, month over month,in five years. southern plains just a whole bombardment of...

The latest one, created in a wheat field at Silbury Hill, Wiltshire, southern England, shows a floor of checkered tiles stretching down a long, high-ceilinged corridor with doors leading off each side. CROP circles have achieved a new level of sophistication they've gone 3-D. The three-dimensional design, 60m in diameter, is just metres from the 5000-year-old West Kennet Long Barrow burial grounds, one of the largest and most impressive Neolithic graves in Britain. The latest design was...