Off-farm stocks accounted for 87.9 million bushels of wheat, while farm storage made up 5.1 million bushels, up 48 and 46 percent, respectively, from the same time in 1996. Meanwhile, total old-crop stocks of Texas grain sorghum were at 2.4 million hundredweights, nearly double the 1996 level. On-farm stocks of grain sorghum were at 112,000 hundredweights. Total-old crop corn stocks in Texas during the same month were up 48 percent from a year ago to 6.8 million bushels. Beef exports to Mexico on rise U.S. beef exports to Mexico are on a roll.
Analysts expect the trend to continue.
Chuck Lambert, economist for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, said Mexico's middle class is expanding and their income is growing. Mexico has now become the No. 2 customer of U.S. beef, behind only Japan, which has imported 99,765 metric tons so far this year. October means pumpkin business booms Some people like ghosts, goblins and witches. Texas pumpkin farmers live for Halloween. Some growers yield 30,000 to 40,000 pounds of pumpkins per acre.