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Industry Ag News 9/22

Agwired

Futures market carries have improved for all three major classes of wheat and the buy basis is widening following a bigger harvest. The larger harvest follows two years of poor production and a historic run of inverted futures markets that sapped profitability for storing wheat. A modest rebound in U.S.

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The American Chestnut Tree is Coming Back. Who is It For?

Modern Farmer

The painting reminded him of his elders teaching him to harvest black walnuts and hickories. “I For years, controversy has swirled around the ethics of using novel biotechnology for species conservation. White Appalachian communities came to rely on chestnuts as free feed for their hogs and other livestock, and as a cash crop.