Another Unprecedented Spring in Beans
VANCOUVER - May 1/13 - SNS -- The spring of 2013 is another in a series of memorable seeding periods in North America and could do as the year where seeding was delayed longer than almost farmer can remember.
Once again, the first seeded area estimates for Canada and the United States might be better described as revised seeding intentions. A large part of the acreage will be known, but many farmers will be forced to make critical management decisions about which crops to emphasize as this year's seeding window starts to close.
The late departure of winter on the Canadian Prairies and parts of the U.S. midwest simply continues the weather story that started last summer in Asia and continued as farmers in Argentina prepared to seed this year's crops.
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