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CGB to Invest $31m in Indiana Soybean Plant Expansion
Oct 11, 2016Consolidated Grain and Barge (CGB) is set to expand its soybean processing plant in southwest Indiana with an investment of more than $31m. Through the expansion, the company plans to double the size of its plant located at the Port of ...
Tags: CGB, expansion, soybean processing plant
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Monsanto Looking to Exit Biotech Soybean Seeds Business in Argentina
May 13, 2016Agricultural and seed company Monsanto is looking to exit its biotech soybean seeds business in Argentina, as it faces problems in collecting seed royalties and with a depreciation in the country’s currency. The seed company is in ...
Tags: Soybean Seeds, soybean
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Ardent Mills Commits to Help Farmers Double Organic Wheat Acres in US by 2019
Dec 21, 2015Ardent Mills, the premier flour-milling and ingredient company, is announcing a new organic initiative committed to helping US wheat growers double organic wheat acres by 2019. Ardent Mills CEO Dan Dye said: "Ardent Mills' vision is to be ...
Tags: he premier flour-milling and ingredient company, wheat, Agriculture
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Wasde: U. S. Corn Crop Second Largest Ever in 2016
Dec 15, 2015U.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 ...
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Corn Has Competition as Ethanol's Leading Grain
Nov 19, 2015In terms of ethanol production, corn has some competition this winter— grain sorghum. The grain, also known as milo, produces the same amount of ethanol per bushel, but uses one third less water in the process of creating the fuel. It ...
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ADM Opens Food Ingredient and Animal Feed Premix Manufacturing Plants in China
Nov 19, 2015US-based agribusiness Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) has opened two manufacturing plants in China in order to increase its capacity to meet the growing demand in the country for value added food ingredients and animal nutrition ...
Tags: ADM, Animal Feed, premix products
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108-Bushel Yield Breaks Illinois Soybean Record
Nov 18, 2015Farmer Jason Lakey and his father, Robert, have set a new state record for the most impressive soybean yield in Illinois at 108.3 bushels. The Lakeys used 20-inch rows with a 4.1 maturity group variety, Asgrow AG4135, on their yield ...
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USDA Says Big Crops, Markets End Lower
Nov 11, 2015DES MOINES, Iowa (Agriculture.com)—The U.S. 2015 corn and soybean crops keep getting bigger, according to the USDA Tuesday. As a result, the CME Group’s corn and soybean markets have turned lower. At the close, the Dec. corn ...
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ADM Completes Acquisition of Certain Assets of Eaststarch to Expand Corn Business
Nov 4, 2015US-based agribusiness company Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) has completed the acquisition of some assets of Eaststarch C.V., which is ADM’s 50-50 joint venture with Tate & Lyle. Tate& Lyle is a UK-based agribusiness which ...
Tags: ADM, corn wet milling, Corn business
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Will U. S. Farmers Have Enough Grain Storage This Fall?
Aug 11, 2015Using grain bins as a marketing strategy has a lot of appeal this year, as the farm markets hover at or below cost-of-production levels. Some farmers choose to use storage to help capture higher cash basis prices later in the season or to ...
Tags: Grain Storage, soybeans
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The Focus in The Corn Market Turned to 2015 Production Prospects
May 15, 2015The focus in the corn market has mostly turned to 2015 production prospects and implications for the magnitude of stocks at the end of the 2015-16 marketing year. Still, the pace of old-crop consumption will determine the magnitude of ...
Tags: corn market, Corn Export
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Kansas Wheat Tour Intends to Give Participants a Crash Course in Wheat Production
May 8, 2015A record turnout for the annual Wheat Quality Council Winter Wheat Tour of Kansas will see a wide variety of wheat conditions over the three-day tour. That's according to Aaron Harries, director of research at the Kansas Wheat Commission ...
Tags: Kansas Wheat, wheat
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Farmers "Just Hanging on" as Crop Potential Spirals
Apr 8, 2015Monday's USDA Crop Progress report showed more than 40% of the nation's winter wheat crop in good or excellent condition. Yet many wheat farmers say their wheat acres are in trouble as the drought continues its onslaught in areas where ...
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US Agricultural Development
Apr 1, 2015Farmers 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 ...
Tags: Grain Stocks, Soybeans, Corn
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Soybean Stocks up Again
Feb 20, 2015Despite 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 ...
Tags: Agriculture, Soybean
