date:Mar 19, 2014
Cash basis bids for hard red winter wheat were steady in the US Plains on Tuesday. The condition of the new winter wheat crop was deteriorating in the southern US Plains due to dry conditions and winterkill damage has been noted by wheat experts in the central part of top wheat-producer Kansas.
As of Sunday, the US Department of Agriculture said 34 percent of the Kansas wheat crop was rated in good to excellent condition, down from 37 percent a week earlier. In Oklahoma, another major wheat pr