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Article: Produce.(MARKETS)
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- The Food Institute Report
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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WEATHER -- In southern Louisiana, sugarcane producers monitored the effects of salt-water intrusion after Hurricane Ike, since storm-surge heights in many cases were similar to those observed with Hurricane Gustav just 2 weeks earlier. Along the Texas coast, the rice harvest was nearly complete, but a portion of the cotton crop was battered by wind and rain. In the lower Mississippi Valley and neighboring areas, cotton, rice, sorghum, and soybeans that were adversely affected by Gustav were subjected to another round of gusty winds and locally heavy rain. On the southern Plains, downpours halted winter wheat planting preparations and threatened the quality of sorghum and ...