[HN Gopher] Crop Report: USA spring wheat production up over 50%... ___________________________________________________________________ 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-08-12 23:00 UTC)