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International Grains Council's
January report eases data
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production, the I.G.C. noted, still was
expected to drop for the first time in
six years.
The I.G.C. forecast world wheat
consumption in 2018-19 at a record
745 million tonnes, up 6 million
tonnes from November and up 4 million tonnes from 741 million tonnes,
the current record. World trade in
wheat was forecast at 170 million
tonnes, down 1 million tonnes from

November and down 5 million
tonnes from 2017-18.
World wheat ending
stocks for 2018-19 were
forecast at 263 million
tonnes, up 1 million from
the November projection
but down 7 million tonnes,
or 3%, from 270 million
tonnes in 2017-18.
The I.G.C. also issued its initial
preliminary world wheat production

projection for 2019-20 in its Jan. 24 report.
"The Council's preliminary projections for wheat supply and demand in
2019-20 point to a 13-million-tonne, or
2%, year-over-year rise in production to 751 million tonnes," the
I.G.C. said. "However, the
increase in supply is seen
being completely absorbed
by smaller opening stocks
(-7 million tonnes year over
year) and assumed growth
in consumption (+6 million
tonnes), potentially leaving the
carryover at the end of 2019-20 unchanged year over year." MBN

Farm Service Agency offices to reopen temporarily
The following services will be temporarily available:
* Market Facilitation Program.
* Marketing assistance loans.
* Release of collateral warehouse receipts.
* Direct and guaranteed farm operating loans, and emergency loans.
* Service existing Conservation Reserve Program contracts.
* Sugar price support loans.
* Dairy Margin Protection Program.
* Agricultural risk coverage and price loss coverage.
* Livestock forage disaster.
* Emergency Assistance Livestock, Honey Bees, and Farmraised Fish Program.
* Livestock Indemnity Program.
* Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program.
* Tree Assistance Program.
* Remaining Wildfires and Hurricanes Indem'The F.S.A. provides vital support for farmers and
nity Program payments for applications already
ranchers, and they count on those services being
processed.
available. We want to offer as much assistance as
Transactions that will not be available include,
but were not limited to:
possible until the partial government shutdown is
* New Conservation Reserve Program contracts.
resolved.'
* New direct and guaranteed farm ownership
- Sonny Perdue,
loans.
Secretary of Agriculture
* Farm Storage Facility Loan Program.
* New or in-process Wildfires and Hurricanes
designed to assist farmers hurt financially by trade issues, espe- Indemnity Program applications.
* Emergency Conservation Program.
cially the ongoing dispute between the United States and China.
* Emergency Forest Rehabilitation Program.
"At President Trump's direction, we have been working to
* Biomass Crop Assistance Program.
alleviate the effects of the lapse in federal funding as best we
* Grassroots Source Water Protection Program.
can, and we are happy to announce the reopening of F.S.A. of* The U.S.D.A. announcement was applauded by farm orgafices for certain services," Mr. Perdue said. "The F.S.A. provides
vital support for farmers and ranchers, and they count on those nizations.
"The announcement that the Agriculture Department will
services being available. We want to offer as much assistance
as possible until the partial government shutdown is resolved." reopen all F.S.A. offices for many vital services is welcome
Mr. Perdue explained the U.S.D.A., in collaboration with news," said Zippy Duvall, president of the American Farm Buthe Office of Management and Budget, reviewed all funding reau Federation. "The reopening means F.S.A. will once again
accounts unaffected by the lapse in appropriation and zeroed provide much-needed operating loans, crop insurance, crop
in on programs where the suspension of activity associated disaster assistance and more.
"Planting time is here for many farmers and very near for
with those accounts would significantly damage or prevent
the execution of the terms of the underlying statutory provi- most. So far, we've been promised two additional weeks of opsion. As a result of the review, the U.S.D.A. was able to ex- eration starting on Jan. 28, and three days a week thereafter for
empt additional employees from the furlough. The accounts as long as those services are needed. This is a great start. We
not affected by the lapse in appropriations include manda- look forward to an end to the ongoing shutdown and hope the
tory, multiyear and no-year discretionary funding, including president and Congress, alike, can find a way to end their impasse soon as possible." MBN
fiscal year 2018 farm bill activities, the U.S.D.A. said.
WASHINGTON - Despite the ongoing lapse in federal funding, all the U.S. Department of Agriculture's 9,700 Farm Service
Agency employees returned to work Jan. 24 to provide farmers
and ranchers with critical services.
In a statement issued Jan. 22, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said the temporary recall will allow F.S.A. offices to open from
8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday from Jan. 24 through
Feb. 1, and the same hours Wednesday through Friday thereafter if needed. Mr. Perdue noted President Donald Trump already
has signed legislation guaranteeing compensation for all federal
workers' missed paychecks during the partial government shutdown that began Dec. 22, 2018.
Mr. Perdue also announced the one-month extension to Feb. 14
of the application deadline for the Market Facilitation Program

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