CropsUniversity of Minnesota Extension says row-crop growers can cut future weed pressure by mowing field edges, pulling escapes before they reach the combine, harvesting clean fields first and cleaning machines between fields.
Teff Co., which contracts about 6,500 acres across Idaho, Washington, Nevada, California and Arizona, reports average quality, stable contract prices and 19 growers this year — two sat out for lack of irrigation water — as the Ethiopian grain's harvest finishes on schedule.
Six percent of the US soybean crop was harvested by 13 September, double the five-year average, with Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas well ahead and yields reported as strong across the South.
CropsCombines are running in 12 of the 18 main corn states, with Texas 73% and North Carolina 54% harvested, while USDA's September yield forecasts fall for Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Illinois and Indiana and rise for Iowa, Tennessee and Kentucky.
Diesel that cost under $4 before the war with Iran began in late February set records on 4 and 8 September, driven by crude near $100, distillate stocks 15% below the five-year average and Russia's halt to diesel exports, analyst Naomi Blohm writes.
CropsUSDA's crop progress report for the week to 13 September surprised analysts who expected a decline, held soybeans at 58% good-to-excellent with 6% harvested, and showed winter wheat planting at 8%, behind the five-year average of 12%.
Timely rain made 'pretty good crops' across the region, says Almira grower Mike Carstensen, US Wheat Associates vice chair; early loads of soft white below 9% protein drew dockages of up to 50 cents a bushel until the export trade found buyers, and prices still fall a little short of costs.
CropsNearly half of Missouri's corn was mature and 14% harvested by 6 September, well ahead of normal, while the US Drought Monitor reports expanding moderate to extreme drought in the south-central and south-west of the state and USDA forecasts a corn yield of 181 bushels an acre, four below last year.
CropsUSDA's 8 September Crop Progress report shows corn maturity ahead of the five-year average in ten states and by double digits in five, with 81% of Tennessee's crop mature, 72% of Kentucky's and 53% of Kansas's, as heat and dry weather hurry the crop along.
Late rains have left Prairie farmers weighing drying against waiting; Manitoba Agriculture's Darren Bond puts drying wheat from 20% to 15% moisture at about 80 cents a bushel on a $100,000 propane batch system and 57 cents on a $500,000 natural-gas continuous-flow dryer, and says to set that against
