WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, 2004 -- The USDA Increased lending rates for commodity loans disbursed by USDA’s Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC). . . . Continue or visitors click here

PRINCETON - Aug 3/04 - SNS -- North American soybean producers should be sampling fields from this point through harvest for the presence of soybean cyst nematode (SCN) to assess pest levels and develop management strategies that will help prevent yield losses in the future. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Aug 4/04 - SNS -- The USDA expanded the list of counties designated as primary agriculture disaster areas to include counties in California, Missouri, Nebraska and Washington. . . . Continue or visitors click here

EDMONTON - Aug 5/04 - SNS -- Alberta Agriculture strongly reminded field pea producers to inspect their fields for signs of powdery mildew, downey mildew and ascochyta in field peas on account of this year's extreme weather conditions. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Aug 12/04 - SNS -- The USDA designated 30 counties in South Dakota primary agricultural disaster areas due to damages and losses caused by spring frost, heat, winds, hail, storms, drought and insect infestation that occurred since the start of the year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Aug 19/04 - SNS -- Australia's barley marketing board, ABB Grain Ltd (ABB), is now accepting grower sales into its No.1 Pool for the 2004-05 season. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Aug 23/04 - SNS -- Lupin growers in the state of Western Australian will soon have a new lupin narrow leaf lupin variety available which provides better resistance to the fungal disease anthracnose. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Aug 23/04 - SNS -- The USDA declared several counties in California, Colorado and Kansas as primary agricultural disaster areas. . . . Continue or visitors click here

REGINA - Aug 23/04 - SNS -- The impact of last week's frost on crops pulse crops in Saskatchewan and Manitoba depends on the stage development, stresses Sherrilyn Phelps, Crop Development Specialist with Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Aug 25/04 - SNS -- The Australian Wheat Board (AWB) has confirmed the classification of three new wheat varieties, for Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia, following a meeting of the AWB National Pool Variety Classification Panel. . . . Continue or visitors click here

OTTAWA - Aug 26/04- SNS -- Total farm cash receipts eased during the second quarter of the 2004 calendar year, slipping 0.4% below the opening quarter to CDN $8.833 million. . . . Continue or visitors click here

EDMONTON - Aug 26/04 - SNS -- Marketing this year's calf crop may be the most challenging decision process cow/calf producers have been faced with in many years, notes Alberta Agriculture economists. . . . Continue or visitors click here

EDMONTON - Aug 26/04 - SNS -- This year's growing conditions were more stressful than usual in many parts of the growing area in western Canada, raising some concern nitrate levels could be higher than normal in forages. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WINNIPEG - Aug 26/04 - SNS -- The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) today announced opening contract calls for Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS) wheat for the 2004-05 crop year. . . . Continue or visitors click here

SYDNEY - Aug 31/04 - SNS -- The Australian Wheat Board (AWB) closed the 2003-04 AWB National Pool for all pay grades in Queensland, NSW and Victoria. . . . Continue or visitors click here

WASHINGTON - Aug 31/04 - SNS -- Returns from the sale of agricultural commodities declined at the farm level in August, according to the latest USDA prices received estimates. . . . Continue or visitors click here

A table about USDA Index of Prices Received -- August, 2004 . . . Subscribers Only

WASHINGTON - Aug 31/04 - SNS - The cost of farming in the United States rose in August, with the USDA's Index of Prices Paid for Commodities and Services, Interest, Taxes, and Farm Wage Rates (PPITW) rising to 135 (1990-92=100) points, 0.7% higher thanJuly 2004 and 6.3% above August 2003. . . . Continue or visitors click here

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