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Yields down as Saskatchewan harvest now 78% complete

Little harvest progress was made by Saskatchewan farmers in the past week due to cool temperatures and rain. Saskatchewan Agriculture reported Thursday that 78 per cent of the crop is now in the bin, ... read more

South Dakota winter wheat harvest reaches halfway point

The federal Agriculture Department says in its weekly crop report that 47 ... supplies statewide are rated 84 percent adequate to surplus, with 78 percent of subsoil moisture in those categories. ... read more

Trade wars leave farming as a casualty

Part of the decline could be from the improving crop conditions for the spring ... improvement in spring wheat ratings, to 78 percent good or excellent, compared to 70 percent a week ago. Winter wheat ... read more

Drought Deepens In Hardest Hit Parts Of U.S.

Extreme drought: "Major crop/pasture losses." — Exceptional drought: "Exceptional and widespread crop/pasture losses." The only bit of modest good news in the latest report: altogether, 78.14 percent ... read more

Compass Minerals Revisited: Moat And Outlook

Compass Minerals International, Inc., 2018 Annual Report ... crops. SOP market share in North America. The high price of SOP relative to rock salt gives it farther geographical reaches. ... read more

Afghan Poppy Growing Reaches Record Level, U.N. Says

It was only by chance that drought and disease ravaged much of the crop and prevented the harvest ... to a recent report by Barnett Rubin of the Center on International Cooperation at New York ... read more

Hungry for a Solution to Rising Food Prices

Shrunken wheat harvests in those countries, along with cool, wet summer weather in the American Midwest that delayed the U.S. harvest, helped drive wheat prices at the Chicago Board of Trade up by 74 ... read more

Accounting for Basis Whims

The annual harvest dance of combines, grain wagons, semi trucks, bins, dryers, trains, barges and ships requires new choreography each year. On-farm logistics are determined by both your crop and ... read more

Life as a Farmworker in Yuma’s Lettuce Fields

The farmers at the Harvest Dinner certainly had something to celebrate. But, as the night wore on, and even as a new Ford Fiesta ... rate of 23.3 percent.” Seasonally, unemployment numbers, according ... read more

WWF Names World's Top 10 Rivers at Greatest Risk

The report, "World's Top Rivers at Risk," released ... and meanders through a watershed that is more than 30 percent arid. The Nile delta is home to virtually all of Egypt's 78 million people, and the ... read more

When There Are No More Fish

The new stories are like this one ... “A long time ago, it was so good," Kear said of the fish harvest. "Now it’s so bad. The big problem is there are no more fish any more. This year, I can’t make ... read more

World Feeding Itself Spurs Search Amid Global Feast and Famine

Shrunken wheat harvests in those countries, along with cool, wet summer weather in the American Midwest that delayed the U.S. harvest, helped drive wheat prices at the Chicago Board of Trade up by 73 ... read more