Corn and soybeans were up; cotton was mixed; and wheat was down for the week. As the Christmas season quickly approaches trading volume has reduced substantially with the exception of soybeans which have high volumes when accounting for ...
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Key Competitors' Wheat Output Boosted This Month World wheat production forecast for 2013/14 soared 5.0 million tons this month to 711.4 million, exceeding the record wheat output of 2011/12 by 14.1 million tons and surpassing that year's ...
Tags: Wheat, Wheat International Outlook
Projected 2013/14 Supplies Raised 10 Million Bushels This Month Projected 2013/14 supplies are raised 10 million bushels this month to 3,008 million bushels. Production and carryin stocks are unchanged, but imports are raised to 10 ...
Tags: Wheat, Wheat Domestic Outlook, US
After pollination, peanut flowers form a peg that rapidly grows downward and buries itself in the soil. With about 120,000 to 125,000 acres harvested, and about average yields, this year's peanut crop is certainly much better than it has ...
Tags: Texas, average yields, peanut crop, peanut production in Texas
Forage testing is a tool to determine current nutritive values as well as non-nutritive values in forages that can be used for marketing hay, formulating rations, and determining potential toxicities or other problems (i.e., prussic acid, ...
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Timely action by the U.S. Grains Council, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Trade Representative averted a patently protectionist seasonal market closure in Panama, keeping this important market open for U.S. corn exports. ...
It must be tough to find a seat on flights between Brazil and Beijing these days.One Chinese delegation after another has visited Brazilian soybean-producing states to cut deals,and farmers from the largest of those states,Mato Grosso,went ...
Market News and Review During Tuesday's short session, soybeans regained some of what was lost on Monday. The market was given a boost by Egypt buying 114,000 tons of U.S. soybeans. Another 185,000 tons were sold to unknown destinations. ...
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Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service economists recently provided 2014 projections for major commodities produced in Texas, with many pointing to past drought conditions as a key factor in making or breaking a crop. The Plains region of ...
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The Pakistani textile industry has urged the Government to establish Generalized System of Preferences Plus (GSP+) Cell, in order to fully utilize the duty-free access to the European Union (EU) and earn foreign exchange. The proposal ...
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US-based food security company Blumberg Grain has been awarded a project by the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to expand food security and storage in the African country. The new project will see deployment ...
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Thanksgiving is a time to celebrate family and friends, enjoy the fall harvest, and to stuff our faces full of delicious food. ?No matter your specific traditions, I'm certain the stuffing-of-faces is common across all Thanksgiving tables. ...
Sanderson Farms, a US-based frozen chicken products maker, has posed a net income of $45.3m for the fourth quarter ended 31 October 2013, compared to $9.3m for the same period last year. During the quarter, net sales were $727.1m compared ...
Temperatures dropped below zero today, and the last hint of green is diminishing from lawns and pastures. Now is a critical time to focus on cows' nutrition. For spring-calving herds, producers need to key in on the needs of the pregnant ...
Tags: Bred Cows, Agriculture, Food
Argentina plans to increase the allowance for refiners and other companies to import diesel and gasoline supplies under a tax-free program in 2014, Economy Minister Axel Kicillof said Friday. He said the government will allow companies to ...
Tags: Fuel Imports, Tax-Free Program, Argentina