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  June 9, 2009 A Penton Media Property Vol. 1 No. 8  
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Take The Wheat Harvest Tour – From The Road And Combine
Welcome to this special issue of e-Wheat, where we remind you that the annual migration of wheat harvest crews is underway from south to north. And DuPont Crop Protection is taking growers and others behind the scenes of one of agriculture’s most traditional and essential events.

This summer, two custom-harvesting crews will spend seven weeks harvesting wheat from Texas to South Dakota as part of the “All Aboard 2009 Wheat Harvest” tour sponsored by DuPont Crop Protection and High Plains Journal. The tour will track harvest progress through a daily blog on www.allaboardharvest.com and on Twitter (twitter.com/allaboard2009), giving people across the globe an opportunity to interact with this season’s U.S. wheat harvest in real time.

Two harvesting crews, Hoffman Harvesting, based in Bowdle, SD, and Zeorian Harvesting, based in Manley, NE, are working their way from Texas to North Dakota and Montana. Harvesting stops along the way will include Olney, TX; Kiowa, Pratt, Colby and Goodland, KS; Seiling and Elk City, OK; Limon, CO; Gettysburg, Faulkton, Bowdle and Aberdeen, SD; LaMoure, Jamestown and Rocklake, ND; and Jordan, MT. Site updates will be posted on the tour’s Web site at www.allaboardharvest.com. Tour correspondents include members of the Hoffman and Zeorian family harvesting businesses.

They play an integral part in just about every element of custom-harvesting operations, including driving equipment between fields, cooking, handling laundry and communications duties. The harvest-tour blog will also share crop news, weather reports and wheat industry and crop production information.

Tony Treadwell, an area manager with Attebury Grain Co., Amarillo, TX, says custom harvesters are important to the grain industry. Some will likely be in the eastern Texas Panhandle area he coordinates for the regional grain handling company. “We’re going to see a lot of wheat cut in our area,” he says.

“Custom harvesting is a unique, vital part of our wheat industry,” says Marty Wojcik, cereal herbicide portfolio manager, DuPont Crop Protection. “We thought it would be interesting not only to follow the agricultural progress and report on important crop-protection news, but also to meet the people who play a key role in harvesting wheat for the world.”

Follow the tour on the Web site and sign up for blog updates via e-mail. Twitter subscribers can track the tour at twitter.com/allaboard2009.

Source: DuPont Crop Protection
Market Analysis
By Kim Anderson, Oklahoma State University grain marketing specialist
 The wheat harvest has started in southern Oklahoma (and other southern areas). Yields are as expected – very low – and quality may be as expected – high 50s to low 60-lb. test weight. Listening to elevator managers and farmers, I get the feeling that Oklahoma wheat production may be slightly below USDA's 80.5-million-bushel projection.

The fact that wheat prices are increasing and USDA's crop rating report shows ratings down 7% indicates that Kansas' wheat production may also be less than USDA's 340-million-bushel projection. Spring wheat planted acres may be significantly less than was expected. Plantings in Minnesota are 71% compared to a five-year average of 96%. North Dakota planted acres are 64% compared to a five-year average of 94%. Wheat production losses in Oklahoma and Texas have created a situation where additional losses could result in lower hard red winter wheat stocks and higher prices.

For more on this story, click here.
Wheat Benefits From Extension Of ACRE Enrollment Period
Among the major U.S. field crop commodities, wheat is the crop most likely to benefit from the extension to enroll in the new Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE) farm support program introduced in the 2008 Farm Bill.

USDA’s Farm Service Agency has extended the sign-up deadline from June 1 to Aug. 14 to give farmers more time to review details of ACRE and make a more informed decision of whether they want to try the new program or stay with traditional counter-cyclical farm payment programs. "Farmers are likely to benefit from the enrollment extension because they will know more about the crop on their own farm and nationally by August," says Carl Zulauf, Ohio State University agricultural economist, who helped write the ACRE program. "This holds true particularly for wheat farmers because the wheat crop is harvested much earlier than corn and soybeans."

For more on this story click here .
Watch For Fusarium Head Blight
The Kansas wheat crop is in the heading stage, which is when wheat becomes most susceptible to Fusarium head blight (FHB), or head scab, says Erick De Wolf, Kansas State University (K-State) plant pathologist. FHB was a significant problem on wheat in some areas of Kansas in 2008.

Several factors are important in the development of FHB, says De Wolf, who is a wheat specialist with K-State Research and Extension. These include:
  • Previous crop: The fungus that causes head scab survives in the residues of many grass crops. The fungus is also a pathogen of corn and the most severe disease often occurs when wheat is planted in fields with large amounts of corn residue left on the soil surface.
  • Variety susceptibility: Most wheat varieties grown in Kansas are susceptible to the head scab, but some varieties are especially vulnerable to the disease. (The varieties Overley, Jagalene and 2137 are all highly susceptible to scab.)
  • Weather conditions: FHB infection of wheat takes place at flowering or during the early stages of the grain filling period. This time period clearly influences the amount of disease present. However, the weeks preceding flowering are also important.
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USDA Fusarium Head Blight Insurance Info
While Fusarium head blight may not be as big a problem for some this year, many wheat farmers, however, are not likely to forget last year’s instances of head scab, which caused great difficulty for farmers trying to deliver wheat to the grain elevator during harvest.

Rebecca Davis, director of USDA’s Topeka, KS, regional Risk Management Agency (RMA) office, says producers who carry multi-peril crop insurance policies subsidized and reinsured by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation may be eligible for quality loss adjustments if the reason for the loss in value is due to a covered event, such as this spring’s excess precipitation.

For more on this story click here.
Farm Loan Total Growing
Last fall’s reports of the near-collapse of the banking system notwithstanding, the nation’s farm banks increased their lending to farmers in 2008, according to the American Bankers Association (ABA) Center for Agricultural & Rural Banking’s Farm Bank Performance Report.

In 2008, the report says, the U.S. banking industry held $123.5 billion in farm loans, an 8% increase over the $114.2 billion in 2007. The 2008 figure for farm banks represents more than 50% of the total farm credit outstanding in the U.S., according to the ABA Center.

For more on this story, go to cornandsoybeandigest.com/ag-issues/news/0604-farm-loans-increasing/.
Better Understanding Of Wheat Leaf Rust
The pathogen that causes the world's most common wheat disease is a moving target, but scientists are now better equipped to keep track of it, thanks to some genetic sleuthing by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists.

Up to 60 resistance genes have been known to combat Puccinia triticina, the fungus that causes wheat leaf rust. But the pathogen is so genetically diverse and quick to adapt that most wheat resistance genes prove ineffective within a few years.

For more on this story click here.
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Wheat State Ready For National Festival Of Breads, June 15-17
Kansas has long been known as "The Wheat State," and when the National Festival of Breads gets underway June 15-17, it'll be known as "The Bread State," too. The inaugural event, cosponsored by Kansas Wheat and the King Arthur Flour Company, features outstanding amateur bread recipes from eight finalists from across the nation.

The eight will compete in four categories – ethnic breads, rolls, time saving and easy breads and whole grain breads – for a grand prize featuring $2,000 in cash and an expense-paid trip to the King Arthur Flour Baking Education Center in Norwich, VT.

For more information, go to www.kansaswheat.org/.

Source: Kansas Wheat Commission
Take Part In Corn & Soybean Digest Poll
If you haven't already done so, please take part in an anonymous Corn & Soybean Digest (CSD) quick poll. The most recently posted question is: Have you had glyphosate resistance problems to the extent that you have to spray with another chemistry to finish the job? Answer the question and view quick poll results on CSD's home page at cornandsoybeandigest.com/.
Agribusiness Job Web Site
Go to www.agribizjobs.com/home and view some great opportunities for job seekers and ag companies looking for good employees. The site, part of Penton Media’s Ag Group, of which Corn & Soybean Digest and Farm Press are members, has a targeted online career center. Agribizjobs.com offers industry employers a growing, qualified audience of ag professionals and industry job seekers with agribusiness-specific categorized job listings. It’s a joint effort by Corn & Soybean Digest, Farm Press and sister publications, BEEF, Farm Industry News, Hay & Forage Grower and National Hog Farmer.

At www.agribizjobs.com/home employers can view complete but anonymous resumes for free, and pay only to connect with a job seeker. Job seekers can post resumes in ag-specific employment categories and sign up to receive e-mail alerts when new positions are posted that match their search criteria. Check it out.
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Our next e-Wheat is scheduled for October. If you have any questions, comments or suggestions on the content of this newsletter, please e-mail your editor Larry Stalcup at beef2lar@suddenlink.net. Also, thanks to our exclusive sponsor, DuPont, and its products and services for growers like you.
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