Kansas winter wheat harvest drags with prices slump
Kansas farmers cut total winter wheat plantings and abandon acres as USDA estimates 1999 harvest at 408.5 million bushels, down from 494.9 million last year. Yield drops to 43 bu per acre from 49, with widespread abandonment and 9.5 million acres harvested of 10.1 million planted. Local conditions hit southeast Kansas hardest.
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Myers
Winter wheat production down 14 percent in U S
The USDA forecasts U S winter wheat production at 1.61 billion bushels and a 36.3 million acre area for 1999. If realized this would be the smallest winter wheat planting area since 1971, signaling a contraction in output potential despite prior years' trends.
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USDA
Market and livestock summaries from multiple locaux and markets
Local prices show elevator quotes for wheat soybeans milo and corn across Farmer's Cooperative Assn South Elevator Midland Elevator and North Elevator with USDA LDPs for Milo soybeans and corn. Cattle feeder and slaughter data from Douce City and St Joseph describe Wednesday sales and weekly totals plus prices for slaughter steers heifers and dressed meat. New York AP spot metals quotes list prices for aluminum copper lead zinc gold silver mercury and platinum.
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Milo
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USDA
Douce City
Kansas
New York
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U.S
N.Y
Handy & Harman
Douglas County retail sales lag behind neighboring counties
Douglas County shows March sales tax collections at $1.07 million, up 21.6 percent from a year earlier, but a state analysis finds countywide retail sales averaging $84.94 million monthly from April 1998 to March 1999, behind Johnson Jefferson Shawnee and Franklin counties. Lawrence city tax receipts rise 27.9 percent to $1.01 million in March.
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Kansas Department of Revenue
Wakarusa Valley Development Inc
Johnson County
Jefferson County
Kansas
Shawnee County
Franklin County
Lawrence
Baldwin
DeSoto
Eudora
Ottawa
Perry
Tonganoxie
Rubin's restrained tenure ushers in fiscal surpluses and stability
The era of sustained prosperity credits Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin with rebuilding credibility, guiding policy through Mexico's 1995 bailout and Asia crises, and forging a steady partnership with Fed Chair Greenspan. Analysts say his restraint avoided large reform while balancing budgets and boosting markets.
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Mexico
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