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‘Gold mine’ of century-old wheat varieties could help breeders restore long lost traits
‘Gold mine’ of century-old wheat varieties could help breeders restore long lost traits Historic traits could make modern wheat more resilient to disease and other stressors Some of the historic wheat in a century-old collection was gathered from as far as Australia.KGPA LTD/ALAMY Table of contents A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol […]
Wheat Spread Hits Record As Drought Plagues Midwest
Wheat Spread Hits Record As Drought Plagues Midwest The spread between hard-red winter wheat and soft-red winter wheat has blown out to a record high as drought threatens crop yields across the Midwest and other major farming regions. Hard-red winter wheat’s premium over soft-red winter wheat is $1.72 a bushel in Chicago on Tuesday morning, […]
World Has Just ’10 Weeks’ of Wheat Supplies Left in Storage, Analyst Warns
A combine drives over stalks of soft red winter wheat during the harvest on a farm in Dixon, Illinois, on July 16, 2013. (REUTERS/Jim Young) World Has Just ’10 Weeks’ of Wheat Supplies Left in Storage, Analyst Warns The world has only about 10 weeks of wheat supplies left in storage amid the conflict in Ukraine and […]
Food Crisis Imminent: Hungary Bans All Grains Exports Effective Immediately
Food Crisis Imminent: Hungary Bans All Grains Exports Effective Immediately (Update 1:25pm ET) – Those who have it, are no longer giving it away, and those that don’t will soon find themselves in the middle of an epic food crisis. Just hours after we reported that Russia effectively banned exports of fertilizers, moments ago Hungary – […]
Wheat soars to 9-year peak on supply concerns, strong demand
Wheat soars to 9-year peak on supply concerns, strong demand CHICAGO, Nov 22 (Reuters) – U.S. wheat futures rallied to their highest in nearly nine years on Monday as ill-timed rains in Australia and rising Russian wheat prices stoked concerns about tightening supplies among the world’s top exporters. Corn and soybeans followed wheat higher, with […]
The Company Store
The Company Store Leaves almost nothing to live on In the song Sixteen Tons by Merle Travis (and made famous by Tennessee Ernie Ford), the idea of the ‘company store’ referred to a system of debt bondage that effectively trapped workers within an unfair system designed to harvest all of their labor at very low cost. You […]
Food Prepping: Why You Should Store Wheat And How To Use It
Food Prepping: Why You Should Store Wheat And How To Use It Although wheat is the cornerstone of a prepper’s food storage, many don’t understand why they should have a bunch on hand, or even how to use it if the SHTF. It certainly feels like every single preparedness author out there recommends the storage of […]
Russia’s Wheat Crop Fails?
Russia’s Wheat Crop Fails? The weather turned very cold this year as our computer has been forecasting. The importance of our model’s forecasts lies in determining what will be the next cycle focus. Each cycle tends to shift from one to the next sector. While we still risk a strong dollar rally into 2020 creating […]
Wheat & the Drought Cycle
Wheat & the Drought Cycle QUESTION: Interesting that $1.3T US spending bill was enacted on March 23, 2018, exactly 31.459 years after passage of US Tax Reform Act of 1986: Also, the 86 year cycle in drought conditions in the midwest US seems to approach – is this why Marty thinks wheat will bottom this […]
Toxic Wheat, GMOs and the Precautionary Principle
Toxic Wheat, GMOs and the Precautionary Principle Ben Shahn Daughter of Virgil Thaxton, farmer, near Mechanicsburg, Ohio 1938Recently, I posted a two-tear old article on facebook.com/TheAutomaticEarth that was shared so many times it seems to make sense to use it for an Automatic Earth article as well. The article asks how toxic the wheat we eat is […]
Growing intolerance
Growing intolerance Bread has always been at the heart of human history – we’ve been baking it for the best part of 10,000 years. But over the past decade there has been an explosion of people reporting problems with eating it. How could wheat, a staple food that has sustained humanity for so long, have […]
Wheat Crop Seen Falling Short in Australia on Frost, Hail Damage – Bloomberg
Wheat Crop Seen Falling Short in Australia on Frost, Hail Damage – Bloomberg. Australia’s wheat harvest may drop short of a government forecast after frost and hail damaged crops in the world’s fifth-biggest shipper. Futures climbed to a six-week high. Production may total 23.2 million metric tons in 2014-2015, according to the median of five […]
