[HN Gopher] Crop Report: USA spring wheat production up over 50%...
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Crop Report: USA spring wheat production up over 50%, record high
for soybeans
Author : Kon-Peki
Score : 23 points
Date : 2022-08-12 20:38 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (release.nass.usda.gov)
(TXT) w3m dump (release.nass.usda.gov)
| jerkstate wrote:
| It looks like an increase from 330 million bushels "other spring
| wheat" in 2021 to 511 million bushels in 2022. This is out of a
| total of 1.65 billion bushels in 2021 and 1.78 billion bushels in
| 2022.
|
| for comparison, Ukraine exports about 900 million bushels per
| year and Russia exports about 1.5 billion bushels per year.
| WaitWaitWha wrote:
| >Corn Production Down 5 Percent from 2021
|
| >Soybean Production Up 2 Percent from 2021
|
| >Cotton Production Down 28 Percent from 2021
|
| >Winter Wheat Production Down Less Than 1 Percent from July
| Forecast
|
| This is directly from the first paragraph of the release
| referenced.
| ars wrote:
| > Other spring wheat: Production is forecast at 512 million
| bushels, up 2 percent from the previous forecast and up 55
| percent from 2021.
|
| Spring what is different from Winter wheat.
| dirtyid wrote:
| I like the nicely formated txt file, but why is it in a txt file?
| Could use a nice warez .nfo header... wonder if there's an
| official gov ASCII file header.
| chaps wrote:
| I'd be willing to bet it's because some trader's tooling
| written 20 years ago broke after a format change so they
| successfully raised hell to make sure it would stay the same
| format forever. Probably perl.
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