Price projections are given for the major crop commodities and livestock and livestock products.

Expect a yield loss of 1.5 percent per day beyond the optimum for wheat and 1.7 percent per day for barley.

However, producers may want to be more aggressive than normal in forward-pricing crops that provide acceptable profit.

Grain storability depends on grain quality, moisture content and temperature.

Ergot is a fungus that forms in the seed heads of cereal grains and mature grasses.

However, producers are worried about whether average yields in 2013 will materialize. Unlike last spring, soil moisture is depleted.

Check whether stored grain needs to be dried this spring.

With few exceptions, all crops show positive returns to labor and management in all regions of North Dakota where the projections were made.