Feb05


	Issue 66 Prairie Grains


	Prairie Grains is the official publication of the Minnesota Association of Wheat Growers, North Dakota Grain Growers Association, Montana Grain Growers Association and South Dakota Wheat, Inc.




	Optical sensors may someday help pinpoint in-field wheat quality Competing with and selling wheat to the world’s largest wheat producers Seeds of hope: Iraqi farmers are planting U.S. wheat and barley varieties that may help improve Iraq’s self-sufficiency in producing food Rebuilding Iraq’s agriculture: the most important contributor to this country’s economy, next to oil Why was wheat protein so low in 2004? 2004 wheat research results, priorities for 2005 State legislative sessions begin Association Perspectives: Addressing Rising Costs Critical to Farm Competitiveness, Viability Taming the Bulls and Bears: New Minneapolis Grain Exchange Index Contracts I’m Not An Expert, This Is Just the Way I Do Things: Putting in Tile Drainage Rock N Roll Agronomy: Asian Soybean Rust Both a Threat and an Opportunity for Northern Growers, Let’s Not Go Unprepared Prairie Ramblings: The Lost Winter Diaries of Lewis & Clark