41.   The summer rains, so necessary to keep the spring crops from dying, were no longer reliable.

42.   The tendrils are strictly a late-winter into early spring crop.

43.   There also is concern about the spring crop because rain and cold weather delayed planting.

44.   Today, for instance, coffee prices rallied as colder-than-usual temperatures threatened to hurt the spring coffee crop in Mexico.

45.   Traders also said indications that the spring wheat crop growing in the Northern Plains has withstood late plantings and a summer heat wave helped push prices lower.

46.   Traders said there are fears of damage to the hard red spring wheat crop from scab disease.

47.   Underlying support came from concern about possible scab infestation in the spring wheat crop.

48.   Wheat prices also jumped, as rain in fields in the Northern Plains states delayed planting of the spring wheat crop.

49.   Wheat futures fell on active harvesting of the spring crop and a lack of export interest.

50.   Wheat prices jumped as wet soil conditions in the northern Plains states delayed plantings of the spring wheat crop.