![]() ![]() Chicago wheat and European milling wheat have also moved higher (with 18% and 7% gains, respectively), and Australian and Black Wheat prices have also been rising, but Minneapolis spring wheat futures have so far barely shifted, with gains of only 4% since January's low. ![]() Sure enough, it's the KC wheat contracts representing hard red winter wheat (the variety most commonly grown in the Southern Plains), which have led the rally, gaining 22% since January. Wheat futures have rallied lately, ostensibly driven by drought conditions in the Southern Plains of the United States. Yet both of these little organisms may serve a similar purpose in their sacrifice: Warning of threats to a broader population, if conditions don't change. ![]() In contrast, if a wheat plant dies, its death probably occurs somewhere sunny, dry and dusty - maybe too cold, maybe too hot (temperatures could reach 80 degrees in Amarillo this Thursday). When coal miners sent caged songbirds down mineshafts to indicate the presence of deadly carbon monoxide if their chirping stopped, the little birds' deaths occurred somewhere dark, cold and drippingly damp. It's a little dusty." (Photo by Matt Lansford) Matt Lansford, north of Clovis, New Mexico, posted this March 12, 2018, photo on Twitter with the caption: "Day 1 picking up wheat pasture. ![]()
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