Excerpt from Crops and Markets, Vol. 18: February, 1941 Prices received by farmers for wheat advanced 1% cents a bushel during the month ended January 15, an advance that was rather general throughout the country. But even at 73 cents per bushel in mid-january, the average local market price was cents lower than a year ago. Local market prices of rough rice advanced cents per bushel during the month ended January 15. A good export demand helped to reduce total supplies in the southern belt as of January 1 about percent under those of a year earlier. Farmers received cents per bushel in mid-january, com pared with cents per bushel on January 15, 1940, an increase of cents per bushel. From a season's low point of cents per bushel reported September 15, rough rice prices have advanced for 4 consecutive months making a total gain of cents per bushel. Prices received by farmers for soybeans in mid-january averaged cents per bushel, compared with per bushel 1 month ago; In Illinois, the leading commercial soybean producing State, prices advanced 10 cents per bushel during the month ended January 15, following a decline of 4 cents from November 15 to December 15. Somewhat smaller in creases were reported during the last month in other areas. The mid-january average, however, was still 14 cents lower than a year ago. Corn prices advanced a little more than usual at local farm markets from December 15 to January 15. Throughout the country, the increase averaged cents per bushel; a somewhat larger rise in the Corn Belt being offset by fractional increases in other important areas of production. A large percentage of current marketings has had to be sold at a discount because of high moisture content. Averaging 56 cents per bushel in mid-january, prices received by farmers were only about 294 cents above the average for a year earlier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.