Government has introduced a stop order facility to assist wheat and maize farmers to expeditiously harvest and deliver their crops to the Grain Marketing Board. The move follows appeals by farmers' organisations to the Ministry of Agriculture that some of their members were failing to raise enough money to hire combine harvesters. The farmers also reported that they were facing transport problems during a meeting held recently between farmers' organisations and the Ministry of Agriculture....

Wheat requires less irrigation with the zero tillage method Sahar Majid 5 November 2007 Source: SciDev.net An agricultural technique known as 'zero tillage' has reduced the demand for water in rice and wheat farming on almost a million hectares of land in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. Wheat requires less irrigation with the zero tillage method Sahar Majid 5 November 2007 Source: SciDev.net An agricultural technique known as 'zero tillage' has reduced the demand for water in rice and...

I wonder why the decision makers cannot at times take a more flexible and pragmatic approach to situations like this, particularly as we look like we may be entering a period of potential food shortages globally and certainly a period of food price inflation. I wonder why the decision makers cannot at times take a more flexible and pragmatic approach to situations like this, particularly as we look like we may be entering a period of potential food shortages globally and certainly a period...

But that's not the only reason for the increase in wheat acres. Producers can commonly double-crop wheat with soybeans, which means they can plant soybeans right behind the wheat harvest in the same field, and the price of soybeans has soared to as high as $10 per bushel. LaFoe and Mulhern said wheat and soybeans also generally have lower input costs that other crops, such as corn and cotton. Next year's soybeans could perform like this year's corn, which was planted in record acreage...

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Australia has cut its forecast for this years wheat crop for the second time in six weeks as an enduring drought continues to inflict damage on the countrys hard-hit farmers. Australias wheat crop typically averages about 25m tonnes, making the country the worlds second-largest wheat exporter after the US. That period is critical to [crop] yields and combined with above average temperatures that has placed a lot of pressure on crops, she said. There was a small increase in forecast wheat...