Monday, May 7, 2007

Wheat Falls as U.S. Crop Conditions Improve After Freeze Hurt Plains Crops

(Bloomberg) -- Wheat futures fell in Chicago and Kansas City as the condition of the U.S. crop may improve for a second-straight week after an April 7 freeze damaged plants in parts of the southern Plains.

Some 56 percent of the winter wheat was rated good or excellent as of April 29, up from 54 percent a week earlier, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said April 30. The amount of wheat at that level may be higher in the weekly crop-progress report the USDA will release after the close of trading today.


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