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Disclaimer: This web page is designed to aid farmers with their marketing and risk management decisions. The risk of loss in trading futures, options, forward contracts, and hedge-to-arrive can be substantial and no warranty is given or implied by the author or any other party. Each farmer must consider whether such marketing strategies are appropriate for his or her situation. This web page does not represent the views of Kansas State University. 

Estimating Wheat Planting Price for 04 Winter Wheat1
CRC/ CBOT: AL, AK, DE, GA, KY, LA, MD, MS, MO, NC, SC, TN,
CRC/ CBOT: VA, IL, IN, MI, OH, PA, WI and NY2
CRC/ KCBOT: IA, MT, NE, SD, WY, AZ, CA, CO, KS, NM, OK, and TX
CRC/ Portland: ID, NV, OR, UT, and WA
RA/ CBOT: ID, NV OR, UT, WA, IN, KY, MI, OH, and TN
RA/ KCBOT: AK, CO, IA, KS, MO, MT, NE, OK and SD
Estimated CRC Wheat Base Price for 2004
Daily Average CBOT KCBOT
Closing Closing Portland July 04 July 04
Price Price White Soft Red Hard Red
CBOT CBOT Wheat Wheat Wheat
Sep 04 Sep 04 Estimated Base Base Base
Wheat1 Wheat Basis Price Price2 Price
Base Price 03 $3.99 $3.53 $3.73
Estimated Base Price 04 $3.83 $3.36 $3.40
08/15/03 3.4250 3.5000
08/18/03 3.4450 3.5150
08/19/03 3.3750 3.4425
08/20/03 3.3800 3.4050
08/21/03 3.3750 3.3900
08/22/033 3.3650 3.3650 0.48 3.8450 3.3650 3.4100
08/25/033 3.4000 3.3825 0.48 3.8625 3.4000 3.4300
08/26/033 3.4050 3.3900 0.48 3.8700 3.4050 3.4425
08/27/033 3.3625 3.3831 0.48 3.8631 3.3625 3.4300
08/28/033 3.3700 3.3805 0.48 3.8605 3.3700 3.4300
08/29/033 3.4300 3.3888 0.48 3.8688 3.4300 3.4400
9/2/20033 3.3700 3.3861 0.48 3.8661 3.3700 3.4200
9/3/20033 3.3500 3.3816 0.48 3.8616 3.3500 3.4125
9/4/20033 3.3600 3.3792 0.48 3.8592 3.3600 3.3900
09/05/03 3.3150 3.3728 0.48 3.8528 3.2900 3.3175
09/08/03 3.3350 3.3693 0.48 3.8493 3.3300 3.3300
09/09/03 3.3100 3.3644 0.48 3.8444 3.3025 3.3400
09/10/03 3.3100 3.3602 0.48 3.8402 3.3025 3.3275
09/11/03 3.3050 3.3563 0.48 3.8363 3.285 3.315
09/12/03 3.3100 3.3532 0.48 3.8332 3.2875 3.3100
1IP planting prices are based on the CBOT.
2CRC planting pricee for New York is 85% times the CBOT price.
3CRC planting Portland price requires 15 trading days with open interest of 50 contracts
  in the Sep 04 CBOT wheat contract, otherwise subsitute Jul 04 CBOT wheat prices.
 
 
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