Food supply chain software specialist LINKFRESH has signed a major deal which could be worth up to $5m in joint revenues with Illinois-based FamilyFarms Group. FamilyFarms Group is a farmer-owned organisation focused on delivering ...
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U.S. farmers will harvest 13.9 billion bushels of corn, the second-largest crop ever, and 3.785 billion bushels of soybeans next year, USDA said in its first projections of the new crop. The new crops would follow three years of bumper ...
A scientist from James Hutton Institute and University of Dundee has been awarded an European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant to undertake research on the fundamental mechanisms that underpin the inheritance of genetic characteristics ...
BASF has opened a new Agricultural Research Station in Loni Kand, Pune, India. This new research and development (R&D) center will focus on global agricultural research on herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides, as well as on solutions ...
Although US cotton exports started slowly compared to recent years, they are on track to reach the forecast of 10 million bales for 2014/15 cotton season, the Foreign Agricultural Service of the United States Department of Agriculture ...
Clarity on available cotton stocks is not anticipated until December and concerns remained regarding the volumes of high-grade cotton that will be produced. "The CIF Bremen index remained relatively stable during last week and inquiries ...
New York futures moved higher this week, with December advancing 209 points to close at 63.94 cents/lb, while March gained 174 points to close at 62.27 cents/lb. “After posting a low of 60.83 cents two weeks ago, nearby supply ...
Tags: Cotton, cash market
The rains have been abundant in most of the cotton growing areas. However, in certain parts of Rajasthan and Haryana, there may have been some damages to the cotton crop, informs the latest fortnightly report from the Indian Cotton ...
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Given the predicted 1.8 million tons of surplus cotton production and changes in China’s cotton policy, prices are unlikely to rise to the levels seen in the last two seasons, says a report of the International Cotton Advisory ...
The general trend in the German cotton market remained unchanged during the week. Purchasers enjoyed closing contracts at potentially lower quotations of the new crop, the latest Bremen Cotton Exchange report reveals. Thus, industry and ...
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The Brazilian cotton trade has turned cautious in the just concluded fortnight, mainly from price volatility in Brazil, rise in global prices in early September and the dollar valuation against Brazilian currency real, which has also led to ...
The Cotton Corporation of India (CCI) should once again be asked to play the price stabilization role, in addition to the support price role, The Cotton Textiles Export Promotion Council of India (Texprocil) has said. Addressing a press ...
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The number of inquiries increased slightly in the medium staple range in the German cotton market during the week and in contrast to last week, quotations remained relatively stable, a report from the Bremen Cotton Exchange reveals. ...
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Corn prices continue to be dominated by expectations of a very large U.S. harvest. The USDA will release a new forecast of the size of the crop on September 11. The market expectation is that the new forecast will be about 250 million ...
Tags: Agriculture, Corn
Quoting trade sources, the Indian Cotton Federation (ICF) says, if agro climatic conditions are favourable, Indian cotton production could reach above 400 lakh (40 million) bales in the 2014-15 season and that overall acreage may jump by ...
Tags: Cotton Output, cotton, Textile