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2014-03-25 India-Pakistan

Wheat Crop Suffers Due To Continued Rains In KP

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-03-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Which raises a question back in the North American continent with this winter. Has planting season been shoved to later due to the snow, melt, muddy fields, flooding potential, here and in Canada?

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-03-25 08:59|| 2014-03-25 08:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Definitely postponed in the midwest. Expect more rises in corn prices and animal feed.

Posted by DarthVader 2014-03-25 09:55|| 2014-03-25 09:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Expect more rises in corn prices and animal feed.

No worries, mate! We can turn the corn into fuel which will... no,wait. That won't help at all.

Posted by SteveS 2014-03-25 11:22|| 2014-03-25 11:22|| Front Page Top

#4 We plant winter wheat, and then either harvest it or graze it off early in the spring depending on sub soil moisture or actual rain. Looks like we graze it off again this year since the drought has not broken and sub soil moisture is inadequate even for pasture grass. It will be another tough go here in western Kansas.

Posted by bman 2014-03-25 11:25|| 2014-03-25 11:25|| Front Page Top

#5 But it also has to get to market to have any value and right now all the Class 1 railroads in the US and Canada are up their journals in oil fracking business; so much so that the Cnadian gov't ordered the Canadain RRs to increase their grain loadings by 5000 cars a week OR ELSE!

BNSF was about 3 weeks behind just a bit ago in grain transport. And unit trains get preferential treatment than manifest (that's the train with mixed cars all spread through it) so smaller grain elevators are even further dwon the food chain ( no pun intended)

Posted by USN, Ret. 2014-03-25 14:37|| 2014-03-25 14:37|| Front Page Top

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