USDA projects wheat crop of 423.2 million bushels

From: The Topeka Capital-Journal | Date: July 13, 1999| Author: ROXANA HEGEMAN | Copyright information

Prices drop 15 cents per bushel. The Associated Press

WICHITA -- A bountiful harvest of winter wheat is filling grain elevators across Kansas -- a projected 423.2 million bushels, far more grain than even government statisticians had predicted only a month ago. That projection from the heart of winter wheat country, coupled with good crops elsewhere in the nation, prompted the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Monday to lower its projected prices for wheat by 15 cents per bushel. Whea...

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