Impacts of day versus night temperatures on
spring wheat yields.
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Spring wheat yield seen at 45.5 bu / acre, up 8 pct vs 2011 * Tour pegs durum yield at 42.6 bu / acre, up 34 pct vs 2011 * Three - day tour concludes Thursday in Fargo, North Dakota (New throughout; changes dateline from previous BOTTINEAU, North Dakota) By Julie Ingwersen DEVILS LAKE, North Dakota, July 25 (Reuters)- Favorable growing conditions should result in above - average yields for the U.S. spring and durum wheat crops in northwest...
Not exact matches
If the
spring and summer don't bring some wet relief, the U.S. might well face another year of very low
yields after last year's summer drought — with the difference that global
wheat, corn and soybean stocks this time around would already be depleted.
The Great Plains and the Midwestern part of the United States have experienced extremely cold temperatures during the early
spring as that is causing some concerns on crop
yields as I do think
wheat prices could test the $ 5 level possibly in next week's trade.
Weather conditions during the
spring and early summer promoted long grain fill for
wheat and are returning high
yields for... read more
French Agriculture Minister Bruno Le Maire warned this week that the warmest and driest
spring in half a century could slash
wheat yields and might even push up world prices despite the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's predicting a bumper global crop due to greater plantings.
Over the period under review, the
yield of the breeds of winter
wheat and
spring barley appearing in the market for the first time increased by around one per cent per year.
WSU is seeking international patent protection on Scarlet Rz1, a new
spring wheat genotype believed to be the first to have resistance to Rhizoctonia root rot, a
yield - limiting root disease found world - wide.
Observational data, evidence from field experiments, and quantitative modeling are the evidence base of the negative effects of extreme weather events on crop
yield: early
spring heat waves followed by normal frost events have been shown to decimate Midwest fruit crops; heat waves during flowering, pollination, and grain filling have been shown to significantly reduce corn and
wheat yields; more variable and intense
spring rainfall has delayed
spring planting in some years and can be expected to increase erosion and runoff; and floods have led to crop losses.4, 5,6,7