Apple has teamed up with World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to support sustainable forests in China, as part of its efforts to achieve net-zero impact on the supply of sustainable virgin fiber. China is one of the major growing markets for ...
Better weather has pushed planting progress forward in southern states, but corn planting is still well behind the 5-year average. In Mississippi only 4% of corn planting is completed compared to the 5-year average of 39%, according to ...
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Farmers in the U.S. will plant 89.2 million acres of corn this spring, down 2% from last year, while at the same time planting 84.6 million acres of soybeans, up 1% from a year ago. Soybean acreage will be higher in 21 of the 31 major ...
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World cotton production this season is forecast at 119.2 million bales, virtually unchanged from last month’s projection and slightly below 2013/14 as higher area this season is offset by a lower yield. “Global harvested area ...
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Despite smaller plantings, U.S. farmers will harvest the second-largest soybean crop and third-largest corn crops this fall, the Agriculture Department projected, with high demand whittling down the corn stockpile by 8 percent but soybean ...
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U.S. farmers could harvest their second-largest soybean crop and the number three corn crop under the revised planting projections released by USDA at its Outlook Forum. When the projected plantings are combined with USDA's projected ...
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Government-level talks have started between Canada and India over the supply of canola oil in the Indian market with the same name. Canola Council vice-president Bruce Jowett was in India recently to discuss the issues related to the ...
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USDA reduced the 2014 US cotton crop by 3 per cent to 15.9 million bales in its latest cotton crop forecast released this month; however, the estimate remains 3 million bales above the 2013 crop. While planted area rose 600,000 acres to ...
It is always a challenge to anticipate the USDA's quarterly estimate of corn stocks, but the estimate of the December 1 inventory, to be released on January 12, 2015, is a special challenge. Not only is there the usual uncertainty about the ...
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Recent USDA reports have left some unresolved questions about the magnitude of planted and harvested acreage of corn and soybeans in 2014. The questions stem from the large differences between the planted acreage estimates from the National ...
“Global cotton output in 2014/15 is estimated at 119.4 million bales, which is similar from the previous season, as higher area is offset by a lower global yield,” the USDA informs in its latest October report. The agency ...
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The latest USDA October report forecasts the US cotton crop for 2014 at nearly 16.3 million bales, down slightly from its last month’s forecast, but is 3.3 million bales or 26 percent above the 2013 production. According to the ...
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For a lot of U.S. farmers, a relevant number may have passed unnoticed this year. The USDA reveals that China imported a volume of 84,000 tons of sorghum in 2011/2012. Just two years later, during the 2013/2014, the Asian giant imported 3.4 ...
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The WASDE and Crop Production Reports estimate record average yields for both corn and soybeans. Those big numbers make a bearish boom in the oversupplied markets. The USDA reports that average U.S. corn yields are 171.7 compared to ...
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US cotton output is forecast at 17.5 million bales, 1 million bales above July’s projection and 4.6 million bales or 36 percent above last season’s crop, the August report of USDA reveals, which is also the first survey-based ...