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Grain handlers wary of toxin lingering in ’12 US corn harvest
Posted by Reuters: Julie Ingwersen on April 20th, 2013
Reuters: Problems with the toxic residue of a mold that attacked the 2012 drought-hit U.S. corn crop may worsen this summer and autumn as Midwest farmers blend off tainted supplies held in storage, grain experts say.
The substance, aflatoxin, is a chronic problem in dry, hot southern states like Texas where stressed crops are vulnerable to the mold. But in 2012, the worst U.S. drought in more than half a century extended the aflatoxin threat moved northward into the heart of the Midwest, resulting in the...
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Comments Off on Grain handlers wary of toxin lingering in ’12 US corn harvestDrought persists in U.S. Plains; slight improvement in Midwest
Posted by Reuters: Julie Ingwersen on January 3rd, 2013
Reuters: Snowfall in parts of the Plains last week had little impact on historic drought gripping the region, but parts of Illinois, Wisconsin and the Southeast showed slight improvement, weather experts said.
A weekly report issued Thursday by a consortium of federal and state climatology experts said that as of January 1, 42.05 percent of the contiguous United States was in severe to exceptional drought, down from 42.45 percent the previous week.
Parts of the central Plains received snow in the last...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Drought persists in U.S. Plains; slight improvement in MidwestIn aftermath of drought, U.S. corn movement turns upside down
Posted by Reuters: Julie Ingwersen on October 29th, 2012
Reuters: The devastating U.S. drought and ensuing crop disease are upending traditional grain movement patterns, with dozens of trains and barges shipping North Dakota or Mississippi corn into the Corn Belt rather than out to the coasts.
Processors and ethanol producers in No. 2 corn state Illinois, where the average corn yield was the lowest in nearly 25 years, are "importing" millions of bushels of the grain - an unprecedented volume - from North Dakota, which produced a record crop this year, trade...
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