1.   Also, drier weather in the northern Plains is allowing farmers to plant the spring wheat crop after a delay caused by record flooding.

2.   And food is scarce, since most farmers were not able to plant their spring crops.

3.   As much as one-fourth of all wheat acres planted last fall could be plowed under and planted to other spring crops, traders figure.

4.   A larger spring wheat crop would help offset damage to the winter wheat harvest.

5.   But the spring crop has already been forsaken to drought.

6.   Buying in wheat came partly on concern that wet weather could damage the spring wheat crop.

7.   By then, Rosser will be thinking of spring crops.

8.   Concern that snow covering the northern Plains will melt and delay planting of the spring wheat crop next month also boosted prices, analysts said.

9.   Concern that possible flooding in the northern Plains could delay planting of the spring wheat crop when inventories are lean also contributed pushed prices higher, analysts said.

10.   Concerns were also mounting that bad weather in the Plains and Midwest will delay seeding of spring wheat crops.