WASHINGTON - Aug 1/05 - SNS -- The USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) set the interest rate for 1995 and prior crop year commodity loans during August 2005 at 3.500%, up from 3.375% in July 2005. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Aug 3/05 - SNS -- Some forages cause cows to produce less gas when they are digesting them, resulting in a net decrease in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions such as methane, says Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food Rangeland and Forage Agrologist Lorne Klein. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Aug 4/05 - SNS -- Hail claims in Saskatchewan are running ahead of last year, but they are on a par with the recent five-year average, according to the Canadian Crop Hail Association. However, August is still hail season and further storms are likely. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Aug 4/05 - SNS -- The USDA designated counties in California, Oklahoma and Texas as primary agricultural disaster areas, making certain farmers, ranchers and other agricultural producers in the counties eligible for low-interest emergency loans from USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA). . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Aug 5/05 - SNS -- The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) opened contract calls for Canada Western Red Winter wheat (CWRW) for the 2005-06 crop year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

DES MOINES - Aug 11/05 - SNS -- Delaying your corn harvest to reduce grain moisture can increase yield losses and stalk rot, according to research funded by Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. at Ohio State University. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Aug 12/05 - SNS -- Farmers in the U.S. midwest and the Gulf of Mexico might both be better off if the farmers applied manure to soybean fields, rather than to corn, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists report. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Aug 12/05 - SNS -- The USDA says it has streamlined the process by which agricultural producers in the United States receive loan deficiency payments (LDPs). . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Aug 15/05 - SNS -- The USDA designated one county in California as a primary agricultural disaster area. . . . Continue or visitors click here

NEW YORK - Aug 16/05 - SNS -- Deere & Company still expects a farm equipment sales to increase around 5% this year, but the company is becoming more cautious about the outlook because of weather concerns in some key agricultural producing areas in the region. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Aug 16/05 - SNS -- The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) announced opening contract calls for Canada Western Red Spring Wheat (CARS), Canada Prairie Spring Red (CPSR), and Canada Western Amber Durum (CWAD) wheat for the 2005-06 crop year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SASKATOON - Aug 18/05 - SNS -- Hail claims are down in Saskatchewan so far this year, according to the Canadian Crop Hail Association. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Aug 22/05 - SNS -- The Australian wheat market board, AWB Limited, set guaranteed access dates for its 2005-06 wheat pools. . . . Continue or visitors click here

BOSEMAN - Aug 23/05 - SNS -- Adjusting net returns from growing wheat for annual inflation reveals farmers are not making any more money from the crop than they were in 1929, according to Montana State University (MSU) economist Duane Griffith. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Aug 25/05 - SNS -- The USDA designated 112 counties in Missouri as primary agricultural disaster areas, making all qualified farm operators eligible for low-interest emergency (EM) loans from the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA). . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Aug 25/05 - SNS -- Market cash receipts for farmers, or revenues from the sale of crops and livestock, remained flat at CDN $15.5 billion for the first half of 2005, according to Statistics Canada. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Aug 26/05 - SNS -- The USDA designated counties in Texas and California as primary agricultural disaster areas, making certain farmers, ranchers and other agricultural producers in the counties eligible for low-interest emergency loans from USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA). . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Aug 31/05 - SNS -- Prices received by farmers in the United States inched down in August, according to the USDA, with the preliminary All Farm Products Index of Prices Received by Farmers sitting at 117, based on 1990-92=100, decreased 1 point (0.8 percent) from July. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Aug 31/05 - SNS -- There was no change in the cost of farming in the United States in August, with the Index of Prices Paid for Commodities and Services, Interest, Taxes, and Farm Wage Rates (PPITW) steady at 141% of the 1990-92 average. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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