Thousands of businesses are in similar straits, from defense contractors like Navsys to wind turbine manufacturers to wheat farmers.
Wheat farmers whose crop was washed away need seed and fertiliser now if next year's crop is not to be lost, too.
The Court agreed that his wheat production, along with the production of other individual wheat farmers, could affect the national wheat supply.
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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.
As well as increasing aid to wheat and cotton farmers, the package diversifies farm aid to cover producers of milk, lentils, honey, chickpeas, mohair and other products.
That act ended price supports for common crops such as corn and wheat, encouraging farmers to switch instead to more unusual plantings in response to market demand.
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.
Since then the country has restricted maize and wheat exports, leaving farmers with an estimated 4m tonnes of maize they can neither sell at home nor ship abroad.
What we should have been trying to do in this farm bill cycle, I think, is adjust so that corn and wheat and soy bean farmers who are making good money in the marketplace, they should have gotten less money than they're going to get.
Eradication programmes and policies to encourage Afghan farmers to grow wheat instead of poppies have had mixed success.
With rising global wheat and feed prices, farmers are also increasingly faced with the dilemma of how to produce more food from fewer resources.
Therefore, the Court reasoned the cumulative impact of individual intrastate farmers producing more wheat then they were allotted under regulations could impact the price of wheat, defeating the purpose of the law.
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In some areas, such as the far north of Afghanistan, farmers have switched to wheat cultivation.
The National Farmers' Union said 2012 has been one of the hardest for farmers, with arable farmers reporting their poorest wheat yield in 30 years.
This meant that farmers had to supply more wheat to buy a new tractor for example.
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And some farmers who have been given wheat as food aid have not felt the need to plant their own.
Southern peanut and rice farmers are cross that Midwestern wheat and corn growers will do better than they will from the switch from direct payments to revenue guarantees.
On one reckoning, in order to keep up with population growth farmers will have to grow more wheat and maize over the next 40 years than was grown in the previous 500.
He encouraged farmers to plant five acres of wheat to supply flour to the local hotel, but he and some friends soon realized that the best value-added idea for the wheat was in a bottle of spirits.
On the eastern plains, Colorado farmers should be enjoying skyrocketing prices for wheat, soybeans and other staples.
Nationwide, the USDA said Wednesday that U.S. farmers planted 10% more acres of winter wheat in recent months than a year prior.
Farmers of a few select crops such as wheat or maize can avoid almost all risk using the government's overlapping system of subsidised insurance, loans and payments.
India's government usually increases assured prices paid to farmers each year for key staples such as wheat, rice and lentils, aiming to support their incomes and ensure that they don't switch to other less important crops.
Only the Farmers Loaf range will continue to use all British wheat.
Andrew Watts, a wheat farmer and the NFU combinable crops board chairman, said farmers had been hoping for a kind autumn after a poor harvest in 2012, but this had not happened.
It's signed contracts with Idaho farmers to buy hundreds of thousands of tons of wheat and barley straw, and hopes to break ground on the first plant, possibly in Idaho, next year.
Since the black wheat can be cultivated between regular rice harvests, it helps the farmers use their land better.
Farmers also favour poppies because they require less water than wheat, another staple.
But life has been very different for the more traditional farmers, exposed by the (fairly) free market to wheat imports from Argentina and maize from the United States.
Farmers now anxiously resowing the parched pampas are expected to plant wheat over as little acreage as was sown in 1903, when pioneers were still expanding the frontier, says Mr Weskamp.
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