Word: wheat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most accurate to be had, the figures seemed to suggest that a cycle two years shorter than the Biblical one had entered its second phase and the time had come to apply the "Joseph" plan. After five lean years, U. S. husbandmen were assured not only of the biggest wheat crop since 1931 but of an export surplus in wheat...
...Texas, where harvest hands are already beginning to drift north after the first threshings, the Board estimated winter wheat production at about 39,000,000 bu. compared to 17,000,000 bu. last year. In Kansas, greatest U. S. wheat-growing State, the estimate was 142,264,000 bu. of hard winter wheat compared to 120,000,000 bu. last year. Winter wheat production for the country as a whole will be about 649,000,000 bu., nearly twice that of the drought year, 1933, and 130,000,000 bu. over 1936. Since this is roughly the amount of wheat...
Oats and rye also skyrocketed in the general month-end squeeze. At its peak of $1.23½ per bu., rye was above May wheat for the first time in history. Rye was even being shipped westward from Buffalo to Chicago. Wheat alone declined as the first shipment of the new crop went to market in Texas. Behind the squeeze was no crafty manipulative scheme to pinch the bears for profit. It was simply a scarcity of grain, resulting from last year's drought and AAA restrictions. In the previous five years the U. S. corn crop averaged nearly...
...less than is usually needed to feed the country's hogs, cattle and poultry. (The bulk of the corn crop goes to market as pork beef lamb, duck, turkey, chicken, milk,' eggs' butter.*) To fill their feeding troughs farmers have had to use wheat, oats rye barley, pieced out with Argentine corn 'in the six months through last March corn imports from the Argentine amounted to 42,000,000 bu., more than three times as much as in the same period the year before Plenty of Argentine corn was available last week...
...corn boom by spurting the full 4?-per-bu. limit allowed in one session. No matter how tall the corn grows this year, the 1937 crop will not start to market until October. July corn got above as the high as $1.25 per bu., nearly 10?above the same wheat delivery. And the terrific demand for grain in hand for settlement of May contracts continued to be visible in a 13?to 14? premium on cash corn, 10? on cash rye, 8? to 11? on cash oats...