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Market to Market (May 3, 2013)

posted on May 3, 2013 at 6:58 PM

Market to Market (May 3, 2013)
Full Program: Winter reprises its role in the Grain Belt as record snowfall delays planting even further. The Food and Drug Administration gets the jitters over added caffeine in food and beverages. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange tries to level the playing... Full Story

Market to Market (April 26, 2013)

posted on April 26, 2013 at 6:24 PM

Market to Market (April 26, 2013)
Full Program: The governor of a leading farm state negotiates agricultural trade with China. Heavy rains bring much-needed moisture to the Grain Belt and push rivers to flood stage. And with spring planting on hold, an expert suggests changes to nitrogen... Full Story

Rain and Snow Help Reduce Drought

posted on April 19, 2013 at 4:03 PM

Rain and Snow Help Reduce Drought
The calendar says spring, but Mother Nature continues to disagree. Heavy snow fell in the plains --- most recently in Nebraska and Minnesota --- where travel was slowed because of the precipitation. Full Story

Recent Storms Ease Drought In Midwestern States

posted on March 15, 2013 at 2:32 PM

Climatologists caution that the moisture doesn't signal the end of the stubborn drought that still has a hold on more than half the continental U.S. Full Story

Iowa church blesses Missouri River in ceremony

posted on January 14, 2013 at 9:13 AM

The Missouri River has received a special blessing from an Iowa church that hopes the ceremony will make the river holy and reduce flooding and drought. Full Story

Nebraska and Wyoming Have Driest Years Ever in 2012

posted on January 14, 2013 at 9:07 AM

A national report says Nebraska was one of two states that experienced its hottest and driest year on record in 2012. Full Story

Extraordinary snowfall needed to relieve drought

posted on January 4, 2013 at 2:19 PM

Federal officials say they're confident that they'll be able to keep a crucial stretch of the drought-starved Mississippi River open to barge traffic and avoid a shipping shutdown that the industry fears is imminent. Full Story

Extraordinary snowfall needed to relieve drought

posted on January 4, 2013 at 2:10 PM

The storms that recently covered parts of the U.S. with snow won't be enough to ease the nation's drought. In fact, climatologists say, it would take historic snowfalls - an absurd amount, really - to undo the damage inflicted by one of the driest... Full Story

USDA Report Sparks Rally in Corn Prices

posted on June 10, 2011 at 5:01 PM

USDA Report Sparks Rally in Corn Prices
In Iowa, the nation's leading corn-producing state, this spring is eerily similar to that of 2008, when farmers endured record rainfall and flooding along the Mississippi River. Full Story

Wet weather continues to hamper planting in the eastern corn belt

posted on May 19, 2011 at 4:05 PM

Wet weather continues to hamper planting in the eastern corn belt
The Mississippi River, of course, is the major avenue for grain exports to reach the Gulf of Mexico and overseas markets. Full Story

Market to Market (July 30, 2010)

posted on July 30, 2010 at 8:07 PM

Market to Market (July 30, 2010)
Full Program: Torrential rains in the Midwest flood rural communities and decimate farmland. New research suggests the demise of key government supports for ethanol would have little impact. "Cap and trade" is dead, but policymakers press on with legislation to... Full Story

Torrential Rains Decimate Iowa Farmland

posted on July 30, 2010 at 2:07 PM

Torrential Rains Decimate Iowa Farmland
Heavy rains again in July, 2010 have caused widespread flooding along the Maquoketa and Wapsipinicon Rivers. High water went over the dam at Lake Delhi, eventually breaking an earthen part of the dam. The 9-mile lake was drained to a trickle within... Full Story

China Flooding Kills 701, Worst Toll in a Decade

posted on July 23, 2010 at 1:07 PM

BEIJING (AP) -- More than 1,000 people have died or disappeared in severe flooding in China so far this year, and the heaviest rains are still to come, a senior official warned Wednesday. Full Story

Wet Weather Impacting the Corn Belt

posted on July 9, 2010 at 9:07 AM

Wet Weather Impacting the Corn Belt
Wheat prices rallied sharply this week on concerns adverse weather conditions are curtailing production in Canada and parts of the former Soviet Union. Full Story

Spring Flooding Threatens to Delay Planting

posted on March 18, 2010 at 2:03 PM

Spring Flooding Threatens to Delay Planting
The vernal equinox occurs this weekend signaling the beginning of spring. Full Story
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