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    First major U.S. snowstorm, cold snap may harm some crops

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    Post  Carol Sat Oct 06, 2012 8:21 am

    (Reuters) - 5 to 8 inches of snow was expected by late Thursday with locally heavier amounts. The first major snowfall of the year and a cold snap set to sweep into the northern Midwest could harm some late-maturing corn and soybeans crops and delay the harvest, an agricultural meteorologist and the National Weather Service said on Thursday.The storm is centered in a small area across northeastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota, including the fertile Red River Valley, where farmers are still harvesting their corn and soybean crops after the worst drought in half a century devastated U.S. grain this year. Minnesota is the third largest soybean producing state in the United States and the fourth largest corn state, based on its harvest last year. North Dakota ranks number 10 in soybean production.


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    Post  Carol Sat Oct 06, 2012 8:23 am


    "Biblical" drought bites into Spain's olive oil harvest
    http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/28/us-spain-olive-oil-idUSBRE88R0OF20120928
    (Reuters) - "An olive tree is like a camel, you don't have to give it much water, but when it's thirsty, it really has to drink," says olive oil producer Francisco Nuñez de Prado of the drought that could shrivel this year's harvest to half of last year's.


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    Post  Carol Sat Oct 06, 2012 8:25 am

    This was noticed in August.

    First major U.S. snowstorm, cold snap may harm some crops ?m=02&d=20120913&t=2&i=652569305&w=460&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=CBRE88C0ZHT00
    http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/13/us-usa-economy-prices-idUSBRE88B1JM20120913
    Energy, food prices push up wholesale inflation in August


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