Central Texas News Now By Estephany Escobar, Reporter Contact: eescobar@kxxv.com MCLENNAN COUNTY, TX (KXXV) – The record-breaking rainfall last week may impact the upcoming planting season. According to Texas Farm Bureau President Ronnie Dowdle, the planting of winter wheat and … Continued
High Plains Journal By Don Atkinson, WheatSquared.com Planted acres of wheat in Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska and Texas are reported as lower than expected. “We have a lot of areas in this part of the country that likes to harvest … Continued
High Plains Journal By Jennifer Latzke Sometimes there can be such a thing as too much of a good thing. Such is the case with the fall precipitation events that have delayed harvest across much of the Plains and consequently … Continued
AgriLife Today Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, skledbetter@ag.tamu.edu Contact: Dr. Ken Obasa, 806-677-5600, ken.obasa@ag.tamu.edu AMARILLO – Recent and abundant rains in some areas have producers concerned about leaf rust that is appearing in High Plains wheat fields, but a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension … Continued
WET CONDITIONS ARE PUSHING THE RMA CROP INSURANCE PLANTING DATES. Successful Farming By Bill Spiegel The waiting game that is winter wheat planting 2018 is about to run out of time. In Kansas – traditionally the nation’s largest producer of winter … Continued
By Jennifer Latzke, High Plains Journal The July 12 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report, released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, projects U.S. wheat supplies for 2018-2019 are raised 74 million bushels. The projection is based on increased … Continued
By Stephanie Bryant-Erdmann, U.S. Wheat Associates In its June World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) noted that global wheat consumption is expected to exceed global wheat production for the first time since 2012/13 … Continued
By Stephanie Bryant-Erdmann, U.S. Wheat Associates With the small, stressed hard red winter (HRW) wheat crop getting the lion’s share of attention, it was an initial surprise to read in USDA’s May World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) that … Continued
By Stephanie Bryant-Erdmann, U.S. Wheat Associates With the small, stressed hard red winter (HRW) wheat crop getting the lion’s share of attention, it was an initial surprise to read in USDA’s May World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) that … Continued
By Jay Sjerven, World Grain WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture on May 10 forecast winter wheat production in 2018 at 1.191 billion bushels, down 77.895 million bushels, or 6%, from 1.269 billion bushels in 2017. … Continued