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From the Field: Tour Shows Mixed Bag of Wheat Conditions
Freeze damage, drought damage and hail damage were par for the course during a quick tour through central, western and southern Kansas wheat fields April 15-16. Kansas Wheat Alliance’s Daryl Strouts and I expected to see freeze damage, after temperatures … Continue reading
Freeze injury update - worse than we thought
Reblogged from World of Wheat: On April 4th I toured southwest Oklahoma and surveyed freeze injury to wheat. In my experience, most freeze events are overhyped; however, this one was the real deal Holyfield. I traveled a route from Faxon … Continue reading
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ConAgra Mills, Horizon Milling to Combine Flour Mill Operations
There’s big news coming out of Omaha and Minneapolis today: ConAgra Mills and Horizon Milling (CHS and Cargill’s flour milling group) have joined flour mill operations. The combined operations, called Ardent Mills, will: “…take advantage of the combines assets, capabilities … Continue reading
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Tagged Ardent Mills, Cargill, CHS, ConAgra, demand, farmers, flour milling, Horizon Milling, supply, wheat
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End of an Era: The Kansas City Board of Trade
In an announcement earlier this week, the CME Group announced its intention to “…transition open outcry trading of Kansas City Board of Trade (KCBT) hard red winter (HRW) wheat futures and options to its Chicago trading floor beginning Monday, July … Continue reading
Wheat Field Report: Poor Crop Taking Shape
Despite various amounts of rain and snow throughout Kansas since Christmas, the Kansas wheat crop is in poor shape, based on reports from directors of the Kansas Association of Wheat Growers and personal observations occurring Jan. 15-Jan. 21. KAWG directors … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012 drought, 2013 drought, 2013 harvest, 2013 wheat crop, agronomy, drought, drought impact, farmers, Kansas, Kansas wheat crop, USDA, wheat crop, wheat crop condition, wheat supplies
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Relihan: Drought to Continue in 2013, Abate in 2014
We asked Nicole Lane, Kansas Wheat’s communications intern, to write about one of the hottest topics of the 2013 Kansas Commodity Classic, held Jan. 17 in Manhattan: the 2012 drought. Here is here blog entry. Dave Relihan At the Kansas Commodity Classic … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012 drought, Dave Relihan, drought, Kansas Agriculture Network, Kansas Commodity Classic, Nicole Lane, weather, wheat, WIBW
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The Wheat Beat: 2012 in Review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 18,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this … Continue reading
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Day Five: Bus Trip Through Lioaning Province
Note: China does not allow access to either Facebook or WordPress. If you’re reading this, that means we found a way to get the blog posted. However, pictures will have to wait until we get home. Sorry. Today is Friday…I … Continue reading
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The Liaoning Province: A Region on the Move
Note: China does not allow access to either Facebook or WordPress. If you’re reading this, that means we found a way to get the blog posted. However, pictures will have to wait until we get home. Sorry. “You have come … Continue reading
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To Feed 1.3 Billion Folks, China Needs Our Help
Note: China does not allow access to either Facebook or WordPress. If you’re reading this, that means we found a way to get the blog posted. However, pictures will have to wait until we get home. Sorry. Less than 12 … Continue reading
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