Some fields looked good and some didn't, but at least the wheat in his vicinity was generally harvestable. Harvest will continue for several farmers through next weekend and they will start storing wheat on the ground this Friday. They are seeing some shrunken and broken kernels and their average dockage is two percent with some weed seeds showing up on the double-cropped acres. They haven't had any problems with disease and will probably have enough storage for this crop. Surprisingly not...

Fanning said a general starting point for considering a fungicide application to protect wheat is when the crop has a yield potential of 45 bushels an acre. Fanning added there's increased opportunity for fungicides to return a profit on wheat when wheat is planted in corn or wheat residue, when disease present on lower leaves at jointing, and when there's an extended period of wet weather after jointing. Brad Ruden, interim manager of the SDSU Plant Diagnostic Clinic, added that producers...

She had never seen a grain elevator or a harvest, and she knew nothing about agriculture. There's too good of a wheat crop in the field for it to be hit by a thunderstorm. Far removed from her city of 500,000, Montebello found herself in the southwest Kansas town of Sublette, population 1,600, where she is learning the inner workings of a grain cooperative. The daily grind consists of just about everything about the business of elevators, Montebello said, including grading grain and...

It will update estimates on spring wheat condition, winter wheat conditionand winter wheat harvest progress. The next several days featureadditional rains and with below-normal temperatures, which extend harvestdelays and expand damage to hard red winter wheat quality and production, theweather firm said. Carryover technical selling from a weak close Friday pushed prices intonegative territory and confirmed a bearish technical "key reversal," traderssaid. CBOT July wheat on Friday set a...

Surprisingly small spring wheat seedings, a 39% increase in weekly export inspections of wheat and declining harvest prospects pushed CIF spring/winter wheat basis up by 3-15 cents Monday. government crop condition ratings to be released late Monday afternoon are likely to illustrate that concerns about short soil moisture supplies in the Corn Belt have recently shifted from the east to the west. The markets job now is to ration quality wheat bushels until the southern hemisphere harvest...