Posted on 04/19/2009 8:17:18 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Much of Oklahoma's Wheat Crop Damaged
Apr 17, 2009 9:42 PM
By Colleen Chen, NEWS 9 for NewsOn6.com
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK -- Oklahoma wheat producers are beginning to see the effects from a hard freeze earlier this month.
Oklahoma Wheat Commission Executive Director Mike Schulte said some fields suffered damage of up to 90 percent.
While consumers likely won't see any price jumps at the grocery store in the short term, Schulte said they will likely see price changes a few months from now.
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Michael Peters of Okarche has been a wheat producer for 20 years. He said he's never seen his wheat crop look as bad as this year's crop.
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I was afraid that was going to happen with such a late heavy freeze. I would imagine it affected the fruit crops as well. I know it affected the crepe mytle bushes in my front yard. They were leafing out and it all died back and they are just now coming out. We didn’t have near the freeze in Norman that they had in the wheat growing areas either.
Damn that globull warming
sad for farmers.
We have a very high percent of wheat crop failure here in Texas due to the drouth here. My father is in the seed business and has had a total crop failure this year. Not freeze related, but because of record dry weather.
Condition only recently broke, with light rainfall.
Nothing this dry since 1952.
Regards,
Texas Fossil
This is a rather dire assessment from http://www.marketskeptics.com/ :
My reaction: Last week, I wrote about a hard freeze damaging wheat crops in southern plains. Now we have confirmation of the damage.
1) The Oklahoma Wheat Commission reports that the majority of the state’s crop is damaged.
2) Some fields suffered damage of up to 90 percent.
3) 40 percent of producers don’t have insurance to help cover their losses, which will add up to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Conclusion: Oklahoma freeze damage should start moving wheat prices higher. Once confirmation of the damage caused to wheat crop by torrential rains in India, wheat prices should surge. That will silence much of the today’s talk of deflation.
Rye bread. Rye likes the cold.
The North Koreans that that the American government keeps bowing down and groveling too recommends Boiling grass.
Major corn crop failure in Africa, too.
Apparently a big batch of GM corn fails to set seed...
I am sure somebody is shorting Monsanto stock now.:-)
If both state’s wheat crops are in bad shape, then exports will be way down I would think. It was really dry here but that freeze, snow, and rain broke that.
Wonder how the wheat crop survived in the TX/OK Panhandle with all the snow? Usually snow protects it unlike an outright freeze.
Revelation 6:6 (New International Version)
Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a day’s wages, and three quarts of barley for a day’s wages,...
Have not hear reports from Texas Panhandle, and I was in Amarillo when they had the snow. I am sure there will be damage, because it was so late in the year. It will be a while before we actually see how bad.
Here is was over with before the cold snap. The drouth did it.
Will not be long before “That One” takes over the world.
Look for Commodity Weakness at RealMoney by TheStreet.com(Fri, Apr 17)
ping
Yup
ALl that AGW, where the US needs to ruin their economy by cutting energy use, and the frost line keeps moving South, and stays longer each year.
The Dutch were ice skating on the canals this year. Global warming indeed....
Revelation 12:12 (King James Version)
...Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.
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