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Chicago corn futures hit a 5-week high on Friday, lifted by strong demand for ethanol and increasing concerns over tight supply. Both wheat and soybean also advanced. The most active corn contract for March delivery added 9 cents, or 1.5 percent, to 5.965 dollars per bushel. ...
Crude prices gained modestly above 88 U.S. dollars a barrel as Ireland's credit ratings downgrade annoyed investors. Light, sweet crude for January delivery rose 32 cents to 88.02 U.S. dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile.
A two-month drought is plaguing China's major wheat production areas, according to local agricultural and drought relief authorities. The four drought-hit provinces of Henan, Anhui, Shandong and Hebei produce over half of the country's summer grain, 90 percent of which is wheat, ...
Japan's tsunami and nuclear reactor scare have put up to 20% of its meat production at risk, Goldman Sachs said, forecasting that high US livestock prices are here to stay. Comparing the map of Japanese livestock production with that of damage from tsunami, and the area most at ...
The Argentine government has signed a deal with corn exporters authorizing the first tranche of exports from the 2010-11 corn crop, agreeing to allow 5 million metric tons to be shipped starting Feb. 15, the national farm trade office, or Oncca, said in a press release Wednesday. ...
Argentina's farmers are getting nervous ahead of expected dry weather over the next two months due to the La Nina weather phenomenon, but steady rainfall during the run-up to planting has given the crops a good start. La Nina involves a cooling of ocean temperatures off the ...
Get that checkbook ready: It's going to cost you more to raise the 2011 corn and soybean crops than it did this year, according to a recent report. The 2011 Purdue Crop Cost & Return Guide, released Tuesday by Purdue University crop specialists and ag economists, indicates ...
Canada has cut its estimate for its wheat production before a grain of its important spring crop has been sown, citing forecasts for flooding which look set to provide a significant setback to plantings. Farm ministry Agriculture and Agri-Foods Canada also trimmed forecasts for ...
Argentina and China inked five farm-product agreements during a visit to Beijing by Agriculture Minister Julian Dominguez to boost trade, officials reported Tuesday. "It's a historic moment," undersecretary for livestock Alejandro Lotti said of the deals that cover meat, barley, ...
First deputy PM Viktor Zubkov estimated this year's grain output in Russia at 84mn-85mn tons vs. 60mn tons harvested in 2010. To remind, in 2010 Russia suffered about 13.3mn ha crops' loss due to the drought, which amounts to about 30% of all harvestable areas. As reported this ...
It isn't just Brazil's record soybean harvest which is threatened by heavy rains, but follow-on corn too, for which sowings are running at half the pace of last year, a leading analyst said. Brazil's soybean harvest has been delayed such that in Mato Grosso, which produces nearly ...
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Chief Economist Joe Glauber on Feb. 24 told attendees of the agency's Agricultural Outlook Forum that the rice market will tighten marginally this year with lower plantings. "Rice plantings will fall to 2.88 million from 3.6 million acres ...
The New South Wales Government says the cost of flood and heavy rain damage to the state's crops will exceed $850 million. The harvest in many parts of the state has stopped because paddocks are still too wet, and this year's wheat crop has been downgraded to livestock feed ...
Wheat prices set two-year highs in both Chicago and Paris on Wednesday, and a record in London, as talk of Algeria accelerating purchases heightened talk of stockpiling amongst major importers. Chicago wheat for March touched $8.59 ?a bushel, the highest level for a spot contract ...
Workers in one of Argentina's major ports near the city of Rosario have staged a strike, paralyzing the South American country main point of soy and grain exports, Labor unions of truck drivers, stevedores and other port workers walked out on the indefinite strike early on ...
Farming sidestepped the unexpected contraction in the UK economy at the end of 2010, recording only its third quarter-on-quarter expansion in three years. The UK economy shrank by 0.5% in the October-to-December period compared with the quarter before ?rather than growing by 0.5% ...
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA AWB s 2010-11 season estimated pool returns (EPRs) are higher for most grades this week, reflecting a firmer international market and a slightly weaker Australian dollar, the AWB said on Jan. 25. AWB s estimated pool return (EPR) for benchmark APW wheat in ...
Wheat is investors' worst bet among the major Chicago crops ?or is it? Analysts on Tuesday divided on which is the smart grain to buy, with Goldman Sachs warning of a 20% slump in wheat futures over the next year. Goldman analysts named corn as the most lucrative pick, forecastin...
SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)--Asian rice prices have tumbled in recent months and will likely remain subdued this week due to a lack of demand and the pressure of harvest in Vietnam and Thailand. The world's largest importer, the Philippines, which usually makes annual rice purchases in ...
Corn prices are on course for a record, helping soybeans approach an all-time high too, Macquarie said as, heralding "the return of agflation", it hiked forecasts for farm commodity futures across the board. The bank said 2011 would be a year of "high prices" in agriculture and ...
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China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
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