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Bumper sowings and plentiful rains have put India is on course for a fourth successive record wheat harvest, US officials said, forecasting that the country may be "forced" to resume exporting the grain. The wheat crop in India, the world's second-biggest harvest after China's, ...
NEW YORK, March 8 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks rebounded on Tuesday, with the Dow Jones industrial average achieving three-digit gains as oil prices eased from its fresh multi-year high, soothing concerns that surging oil could hurt economic recovery. U.S. stocks have been mostly ...
U.S. crude oil price fell on Thursday from its two and half year high as efforts for Libya's peace eased investors worries. On Thursday, a spokesman for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said the Libyan government has accepted Venezuela's plan for an international commission to ...
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) announced on Feb. 28 that at the end of January 2011 Australia's bulk storage of wheat grain was estimated at 22.2 million tonnes, which was an increase of 4 million tonnes from the amount stored at the same time in December. Extensive ...
A Thai economist projected Tuesday that Thailand is likely to lose its rice markets in Southeast Asia to Vietnam when the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is formed by 2015. The Thai economist, Dr. Aat Pisanwanich, Director of University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce's Center for ...
Livestock farmers may be the first to crack from high corn prices, CF Industries said, as it added its voice to observers predicting US corn sowings of 92m acres this year. The fertilizer group forecast that a three-year run of rising US corn consumption would end in 2011-12 at a ...
Livestock farmers in Europe may on Tuesday gain their second fillip in a week in their battle against high fodder prices, through a concession on genetically modified foods which would facilitate imports of cheaper feed ingredients. European Union countries are to vote on long...
Deere & Co entered the furore over preliminary official estimates for US spring plantings by coming out with its own forecasts ?pegging sowings of soybeans even larger at a record high. The tractor maker agreed with the US Department of Agriculture's forecast on Monday that ...
Corn Products sidesteps corn hit to beat forecasts Corn Products International sidestepped damage from higher corn costs to unveil a forecast-beating finish to 2010, and hopes of a further jump in its performance this year. Shares in the group, which processes corn into ...
Strategie Grains has, for a second time, cut its forecast for the European Union grain harvest this year, even as worries mounted about dry weather in large swathe of the region. The influential analysis group downgraded by 1.1m tonnes, to 289.8m tonnes, its forecast for the crop...
The U.S. 2011 carryover projection for corn was reduced by 70 million bushels, or 9%, from January, but wheat and soybean projections were unchanged from last month in the Feb. 9 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates. U.S. corn ...
Ethanol plants, not speculators, are behind the surge in corn prices, Commerzbank said, urging authorities seeking to calm markets to examine the state-subsidised biofuels industry. Speculators, whose net long position in Chicago corn has risen to its highest in more than two ...
The reductions that Europe is considering to grain import tariffs could prompt "significant" shipments into parts of the region, FCStone has said, restating caution over prospects for wheat prices. The answer to the question being asked around Europe - of whether a suspension of ...
America's ethanol producers should enjoy the good times while they last. They are in clover at the moment, processing corn into record quantities of the stuff. And potentially at healthy margins too. Ethanol plants appear, cannily, to have bought their corn supplies in advance ...
A shortage of feed in Russia caused by drought may not be resolved even if grain output recovers, with Soviet-era mills potentially unable to keep up with a state-backed drive to expand in livestock. US Department of Agriculture officials, dismissing Russia's release of grain ...
Soaring grain prices are prompting a rash of attempts by UK farmers to default on sales struck earlier the season at lower levels, a trader at a leading merchant has said, terming the practice "disgusting". The trader said he was speaking to "one or two people a day" attempting ...
It is too early for Brazilian farmers to write-off the threat of setbacks from a late soybean planting season, even if rains have put them on course for a record harvest of the oilseed. The US Department of Agriculture lifted by 1.0m tonnes to an all-time high of 68.5m tonnes its ...
China plans to change its system of distributing social aid to make needy people in both urban and rural areas better able to cope with a continuous rise in consumer prices seen since July. Provincial governments have been asked to set up a mechanism linking relief payments with ...
According to news reports, First Deputy Prime Viktor Zubkov said on March 2 that Russia may extend its ban on grain exports scheduled to expire at the end of June for the rest of this year. No decision has been made yet, he told reporters in the central Russian city of Tambov. ...
Africa's solid economic growth during the world recession has earned the continent its spurs as an investment destination ?with agribusiness opportunities looking particularly attractive, Panmure Gordon said. Sub Saharan Africa in particular has, while lagging the Asian tigers in ...
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China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
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