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Farmer Grows Pink Pumpkins to Support Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Minnesota Farmer Participates in Pink Pumpkin Patch Foundation Campaign

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A Minnesota farmer is supporting Breast Cancer Awareness Month by planting pumpkins, pink pumpkins to be exact. Bert Bouwman who runs a farm in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota planted 15,000 pink pumpkin seeds. Bouwman is one of 50 vegetable growers across the U.S. who took part in the Pink Pumpkin Patch Foundation campaign. The pink pumpkin is a fairly new variety and was developed by a Colorado pumpkin farmer about five years ago. The 50 participating farmers pledged to give 25 cents from every pink pumpkin sold to breast cancer research.


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U.S. HRW Wheat 70% in Drought with NO Rain for 5 days + More Frost!

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NOAA reported that U.S. HRW wheat was 70% in a drought ties the 2022 drought! USDA crop progress reported 47% of the HRW wheat in poor/very poor. The weather forecast looks wet and cool for the U.S. Midwest with snow for the Canadian Prairies. Central Brazil Safrinha corn crop looks dry for the next 2-weeks. Rumors that China was looking to but old crop U.S. soybeans out of the PNW. Kalsi (betting platform) has entered the commodity space with bets of where corn futures will be in the future. Trump extended the Iran ceasefire indefinitely, but blockade remains while the ceasefire with Isreal and Lebanon was extended by 3 weeks + CFTC.