(Reuters) CHICAGO, May 31 (Reuters) - U.S. wheat futures fell on Friday on a round of technical selling and worries about trade with Mexico, the top importer of U.S. supplies, traders said. * The benchmark Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soft red winter wheat contract turned lower after failing to take out the 3-1/2-month high of $5.21-1/4 it hit on Wednesday. *
Read More(Tampa Bay Times) Port Tampa Bay officials will decide next week whether or not it will grant a permit to North American flour producer Ardent Mills to construct a $62 million flour mill and grain storage terminal at the site, coverage by the Tampa Bay Times said Thursday.
Read More(Drovers) The total number of farms in the United States declined 3% from 2012 to 2017, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 2017 Census of Agriculture released Thursday, April 11. Since the 1997 Census of Agriculture, the number of farms in the U.S. has declined 7.8%.
Read More(Columbus Business Journal) While Middle West sources corn, wheat, glass and barrels in Ohio, like many makers of beer or liquors, the distillery's barley comes from outside the region, sometimes as far away as the United Kingdom.
Lang's been working on an answer to that sourcing problem for nearly a decade, about as long as he's been building Middle West Spirits.
Read More(Sidney Herald) Wheat markets were mixed with spring wheat regaining some lost ground against the winter wheats. Another bomb cyclone hit the northern plains, dropping deep snow across much of spring wheat country and further delaying fieldwork. Winter wheats moved lower on improving crop conditions for both hard red winter and soft red winter.
Read More(Phys.org) On the basis of prior research, the identity of the Pitted Ware Culture from the Stone Age has been characterized as hard-core sealers, or possibly even related to Inuits of the Baltic Sea. Now, researchers have discovered barley and wheat grains in areas previously inhabited by this culture, leading to the conclusion that the Pitted Ware Culture adopted agriculture on a small scale.
Read More(CP) Washington Potato and Onion Association lobbyist Jim Jesernig told the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee that lawmakers looking to cut greenhouse gases shouldn't risk short-changing conservation districts that are helping landowners with problems as gritty as ponies deep in mud.
Read MoreAgripulse) The Agriculture Department this week releases the eagerly anticipated 2017 Census of Agriculture, which will provide fresh clues to consolidation trends in farming and measure the growth of small-scale and urban production and beginning farmers.
Read More(Spokesman) “In the dryland parts, guys have got started this week,” said farmer Mike Miller, who grows wheat both west and south of Ritzville. “The irrigated guys in Moses Lake, they are going to town now. But in the Palouse, they still have a ways to go. They still have snow on the north slopes and some mud.”
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