However, soybean emergence is at 96 percent, with 35 percent blooming and 7 percent setting pods, both on pace with the five-year average. Farmers with flooded fields in west-central and southwest Missouri have given up on planting double-crop soybeans. Some farmers in the west-central district opted to burn fields because of severe lodging and quality deterioration, MASS said. Wheat harvest is 92 percent complete, compared with the five-year average of 99 percent. Sorghum condition is...

Coupled with a lack of moisture in the western and central Corn Belt, rising temperatures -- from which the region has received respite this week with cooler-than-normal temperatures in the 70s -- will ratchet up the stress on crops, according to Thursday's Freese-Notis Weather, inc., weather market commentary. Corn plants are showing the tell-tale signs of drought stress in western parts of the Corn Belt, and forecasters say it may be some time before Mother Nature provides relief from...

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Indiana currently ranks fourth in soybean production in the United States, with about 28,000 farmers cultivating more than 5.4 million acres a year. The mother-son team went into the soy byproduct business, providing items such as soy candles, animal feed, soy hand and body lotion and soy massage creams. She and son Richard Culler, 58, devised a plan that would keep her busy and help maintain their 800-acre soybean, wheat and corn farm. Suffering from a skin condition and fed up with...

July 13 (Bloomberg) -- Soybean futures in Chicago fell for the first day in seven after reaching a three-year high as some investors bet recent gains were overdone and a government forecast showed a lower-than-expected drop in U. Reserve supplies before next year's harvest will fall to 245 million bushels from 320 million forecast a month ago, the U. Soybeans rose 2 percent yesterday, extending gains to 6.7 percent from the July 3 close, on forecasts for expanding drought conditions that...