The end result was a bourbon that contained red winter wheat and barley, instead of rye.
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But he called the snowstorm a blessing for bringing good moisture to the winter wheat.
There is thus little threat to Kansas City's main product, futures and options on hard red winter wheat.
Nationwide, the USDA said Wednesday that U.S. farmers planted 10% more acres of winter wheat in recent months than a year prior.
Sure, the water comes from natural aquifers 200 feet below the surface and the primary ingredient is 100% organic estate-grown winter wheat.
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The outlook for the winter wheat crop is also poor, with India's main reservoirs, a source for irrigation canals, one-third below their seasonal average.
The explained variance of this residual yield by climate is generally about 50%, which is very close to the average I found for corn, soybeans, and winter wheat.
"It's in about 10 feet of water, " Dyersburg, Tennessee, farmer Jimmy Moody said of his 440 acres of winter wheat, which was to be harvested in the coming month.
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Mr. ROB FISHER (President, Oklahoma City Stockyards): Most of the cattle are turned out on winter wheat to graze all winter, and they sell them in March and April.
Even so, in contrast to only ten years ago, the firms operating in Kansas City today are largely the same as those trading soft red winter wheat at the Chicago Board of Trade and spring wheat at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange.
About 250km (150 miles) to the north, in neighbouring Shanxi province, in Pingdong, a much poorer village, 250 people live along battered dirt roads, and try to grow wheat, corn, soyabeans and winter melon on the dry, rocky mountain land.
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