Moisture content, temperature and quality will affect stored grain.

An insecticide will probably be needed to reduce potential yield loss.

Producers should monitor their calf crop closely in the next week to 10 days.

This year's corn crop may be vulnerable to yield and quality loss.

Total farm bill payments on North Dakota wheat base acres are expected to be in the area of $150 million.

Of the fields scouted across the state, about 25 percent had symptoms of stripe rust at varying levels of prevalence within a field.

Most wheat producers should get a break from insecticide costs this year.

The decrease in wheat midge can be attributed to the drought, which may have prevented wheat midge larvae from dropping out of the wheat heads in late summer.

Only 7 percent of soil samples show a moderate to high risk for wheat midge infestation.