US Plains expected to remain dry through the balance of this week but some precipitation expected in eastern Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas during the weekend, said John Dee, meteorologist for Global Weather Monitoring. Storm could hit in the form of snow, with between 2 and 6 inches expected in some areas. Still suffering through one of the worst droughts in history, wheat farmers are also having to deal with the warmest conditions ever for early winter in the High Plains, causing young wheat plants to try to grow at a time when they normally would be entering dormancy for the winter.
Ukraine hopes that grain traders will voluntarily suspend wheat exports until next spring after exceeding a previously agreed export cap of 5.5 million tonnes, a newspaper quoted Agriculture Ministry officials as saying. Australia has trimmed its wheat production forecast in the current marketing year by 2.3 percent from its previous estimate to 22.03 million tonnes, though the world's No 2 exporter said crop damage from dry weather did not appear as bad as expected.