The only reason for regulatory power over the wheat crop was because the farmer voluntarily grew wheat.
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Pre-monsoon showers already have damaged some of the newly-harvested wheat crop in the breadbasket state of Punjab in western India.
The USDA lowered its forecast of Australia's wheat crop by 2% to 25 million metric tons to reflect recent flooding.
Grasshoppers were thought of mainly as a threat to the wheat crop.
The outlook for the winter wheat crop is also poor, with India's main reservoirs, a source for irrigation canals, one-third below their seasonal average.
It is estimated that a fifth of Russia's wheat crop has now died due to the lack of rain in what is thought to be the country's worst drought for more than a century.
Filburn, a hapless Ohio farmer was ordered to destroy his wheat crop, which he grew on his own property to feed his own chickens, because it violated a federal law designed to limit wheat production and drive up prices.
Wheat farmers whose crop was washed away need seed and fertiliser now if next year's crop is not to be lost, too.
If you put extra nitrogen on wheat, the crop grew taller and thicker than usual, fell over in the wind and rotted.
We would normally say you should hide a hare in a crop of wheat in March.
The research will focus on the current two main threats to the cereal crop: wheat bulb flies that attack the roots, and cereal aphids that tackle the tops of plants.
In 1973 he bought an abandoned monastery on 480 acres of untouched mountaintop land overlooking the Adriatic Sea and planted a crop of organic durum wheat.
But everything from foreign currencies (the Canadian, Australian and New Zealand dollars all test record highs) to precious metals (setting new records almost daily) and crop futures (corn and wheat have nearly doubled this year).
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"If we got three-quarters of the area planted, and the same yield as last year, we could be looking at a crop of only 11m tonnes of wheat when we actually need 14.5m tonnes of wheat for our own domestic use here in the UK, " he said.
Commodities have surged past equities since the beginning of the year, as demand issues and political uncertainty push oil up to record marks and weather patterns across the globe have caused lower crop outputs for commodities like corn and wheat.
Foreign buyers including Japan, the main purchaser of US wheat, say they are unwilling to buy the GM crop, not least because they see few benefits for either consumers or themselves.
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In early trials, the resulting crop seemed bigger and stronger than the current modern wheat varieties.
So if you happen to be doing an Internet search regarding global warming, you are likely to come under the impression that the latest and greatest crop data show global warming is decimating corn and wheat crops.
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Every major crop around the globe is being stunted, from rice to wheat to cotton to soybeans.
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The US - the world's largest wheat exporter - is also predicting that it will have a bumper current crop.
Corn, he concedes, is an energy-intensive crop, but Tumbleson says he may be better off than wheat or soybean farmers because corn is in just about everything we eat.
Wheat farmers in the Western Cape, who used to send half their crop to the industrial heartland around Johannesburg and Pretoria, have been hit by the abolition of uniform, countrywide prices.
The GM crop is a "waste of money" and could "ruin" the wheat market, he adds.
If the rains treat this new crop roughly, one of the world's natural breadbaskets may not produce enough wheat next year to meet domestic demand for only the second time since the 1870s.
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Rice was worst hit because only 4% of its global crop is traded across borders, compared with 13% for maize and 19% for wheat.
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