The third meeting of Pakistan’s Federal Committee on Cotton (FCC), held under the chairmanship of Rukhsana Shah, Secretary, Ministry of Textile Industry (MinTex), unanimously agreed to fix the cotton production target at 15.1 million ...
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South Texas' giant Eagle Ford Shale was the best asset for big US upstream operator EOG Resources in 2013 and will again drive oil growth this year, the company's CEO said Tuesday. Last year Houston-based EOG focused on improving well ...
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Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart announced details of the 2014 Crop Insurance Program, which includes a number of new features to help producers mitigate their risk. ...
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Gloomy Crop Prices Forecasted by Economist Joe Glauber at USDA Outlook Forum By Farms.com Team At the opening session of today's USDA Outlook Forum in Arlington, Va., Joe Glauber, USDA's chief economist, presented the lower grain price ...
Gloomy Crop Prices Forecasted by Economist Joe Glauber at USDA Outlook Forum By Farms.com Team At the opening session of today's USDA Outlook Forum in Arlington, Va., Joe Glauber, USDA's chief economist, presented the lower grain price ...
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Soybeans were higher on commercial and technical buying. USDA’s outlook forum projects soybean planting at 79.5 million acres, less than what many private firms were expecting, so it looks like beans are trying to buy some acreage. ...
Roberto Rodrigues was Brazil’s minister of agriculture from 2003 through 2006, and he’s recognized as one of that country’s leading authorities on agriculture. Like his father and grandfather, he is an agricultural ...
Tags: intensification, family farms, market forces
Two Indiana coal companies have received state regulatory approval for new or extended mining operations that could produce an additional several million short tons of high-sulfur steam coal annually for the US electric utility market, a ...
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The Cotton Association of India (CAI) has downwardly revised its earlier cotton production figures and is now expecting a crop of 37.4 million bales of 170 kg each, during the current marketing year, the Hindu Business Line reported quoting ...
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Eastern Canada's Nova Scotia government is in favor of the proposed 1.1 million b/d Energy East crude oil pipeline terminating at a deep water port in the province, rather than in neighboring New Brunswick on the Atlantic coast, the ...
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The first hay harvest of 2014 is months away in most parts of the country. But an extended and apparently deepening drought throughout the far West – which has helped keep hay prices high – has many hay growers there on edge ...
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New U.S. seedings of alfalfa and alfalfa mixtures increased by 5% last year over the 2.39 million acres planted in 2012. It was the second year in a row to see an increase, even though it’s the third-lowest total of newly seeded acres ...
Soybeans were lower on fund and technical selling. The near term supply remains tight and demand continues to look strong, keeping the fundamentals pretty much bullish. Past that – there's acreage position squaring against corn and ...
Well here it goes my first tool review for Tools in Action, and it is the Gerber MP1 multi-tool it is part of their industrial lineup of multi-tools. I have to say I am pretty impressed with the fit and finish of this multi-tool, but for ...
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Soybeans were higher on commercial and technical buying. Weekly export sales were lower than expected, but still more than what's needed to meet USDA projections and it was a good week for shipments. Around ten to fifteen percent of ...
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