Week7: Cool Sources

Drovers Cattle Network

http://www.cattlenetwork.com/

As livestock feeders are really sensitive to grains price, this America’s Beef business source website provides a lot of information about the future market of grains.  The website shows commodity future price quotes and charts and price spread charts. Updated global news helps readers to understand what is happening right now in the world grain market.  Weather forecasts are provided farmers and readers to convey weather information, the most important factor affecting grains future prices, in an easy-to-consume format. The website provides not only general weather forecast but also includes information about interactive radar, precipitation and temperature. Drought Assessment, soil temperature, hazard and water and flooding maps on the website are really interesting. I believe that this website is useful to us to figure out what is going on farming part and gather information to make right future positions.

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Weather report: Cool and breezy in the Corn Belt

11/02/2012 2:00 AM
In the West, mild, dry weather prevails, except for a few showers in the northern Rockies and Pacific Northwest. On the Plains, dry weather accompanies record-setting warmth across the southern half of the region, where today’s high temperatures will again approach 90°F. In the Corn Belt, cool, breezy conditions across much of the region contrast with mild weather south and west of the Missouri River.In the South, warmer air is expanding eastward through the Gulf Coast States.
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