US food giants Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) and Cargill have signed an agreement to create a joint venture (JV) to meet increasing customer demand for soybean meal and oil in Egypt. The JV, which will be equally owned by the partners, ...
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More than a dozen Chinese and the U.S. enterprises on Friday signed agricultural transaction contracts worth 2.1 billion U.S. dollars, under which Chinese enterprises will import 5.1 million tons of farm products from the U.S. companies. ...
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Consolidated 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 ...
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Agricultural 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 ...
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Bibigo, maker of Korean pantry staples, has launched two new hot sauces inspired by gochujang, a spicy Korean condiment and fermented hot pepper paste. The new sauces, Gochujang Mayo Sauce and Gochujang Barbecue Sauce, join the company's ...
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The US Senate has stalled a bill which would have eliminated state by state laws requiring food manufacturers to label products made with genetically modified organisms (GMOs), ahead of Vermont’s law coming into effect from July. ...
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In February, Brazil recorded corn exports of 5.37 million tons. According to data from the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, this is almost five times higher than exports for February 2015, which stood at 1.10 million ...
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The very first corn of 2016 is going into the ground. In Texas, this week’s weather has allowed farmers to set the planters in the ground and the tractors to ‘blow and go’. Some area farmers have been planting for a week ...
With the soybean harvest getting under way in Brazil, analysts are getting a clearer picture of whether the forecast record-setting crop will hit the century mark of 100 million tonnes despite hot and dry weather in Mato Grosso and ...
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 ...
2016 is looking to be the year of soybeans. Chris Hurt, Purdue University agricultural economist, is predicting corn acreage to be 1.5% to 2% lower and soybean acreage to be around 2% higher for the Midwest’s 2016 growing season. With ...
Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM)’s certification program for global soy suppliers ADM Responsible Soybean Standard has gained recognition from the European Feed Manufacturers' Federation (FEFAC) and the International Trade Centre ...
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The United Nations have declared 2016 to be the Year of Pulses or as Australians refer to them, legumes. Australia is amongst 40 countries participating in the initiative which will launch globally on 6 January 2016. Australia’s ...
The US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has released new rules for food processors to control allergens. The new guidelines by FSIS aim to help poultry, meat and processed egg product ...
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DES 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 ...