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Argentina tracks soy hoarding by registering silo bag sales

By GFM Network News, Hugh Bronstein March 2, 2015

Buenos Aires | Reuters — Argentina will keep an eye on how much soy is being hoarded on farms throughout the country by requiring that the sales of silo bags be reported to tax authorities, according to a government resolution announced Monday. The oblong industrial-strength plastic bags have come to dot the Pampas grains belt

Crops, Markets, Weather

Optimism for Canada to plant 100K acres to sunflowers

By Dave Sims, GFM Network News February 17, 2015

CNS Canada — Wet weather may have cost western Canadian producers 20,000 acres of sunflowers last year, according to one industry watcher who’s hopeful 2015 will be a little kinder. “We were anticipating over 100,000 acres last year and as it turned out we came into that 80,000 range,” said Ben Friesen, purchasing manager for

Crops, Markets

Argentina to restrict wheat export permits if low prices paid

By GFM Network News, Reuters January 31, 2015

Buenos Aires | Reuters –– Wheat exporters who buy the grain from Argentina’s farmers will not be issued permits if they pay the growers significantly less than the international price for the crop, the government said Friday. The announcement, by Economy Minister Axel Kicillof, followed complaints by local producers that government restrictions on wheat exports

Crops, Markets

Argentina’s ‘Soy King’ abdicates in favor of biotech

By GFM Network News, Hugh Bronstein January 16, 2015

Buenos Aires | Reuters –– The company that led the breakneck expansion of Argentine soy cultivation over the last two decades has quietly reduced the area it farms by more than half as inflation, trade restrictions and high taxes drain growers’ profits. Los Grobo, once known as the South American country’s “King of Soy” has

Crops, Markets

Argentina denounces farmer soy hoarding, says hurts state income

By GFM Network News, Hugh Bronstein January 9, 2015

Buenos Aires | Reuters — Argentine growers hoarding soybeans to protect themselves from inflation are hurting both state and farm income in the world’s No. 3 exporter of the oilseed, a top government official said Thursday. The South American country pioneered the use of plastic horizontal silos to stockpile grains. Growers are hanging onto soybeans,

Crops, Markets

Striking port workers in Argentine grains hub halt shipping

By GFM Network News, Reuters December 18, 2014

Buenos Aires | Reuters — Port workers in part of the Argentine grain hub of Rosario went on strike on Thursday to demand a year-end bonus, paralyzing ship movements, said the head of the powerful CGT union’s local branch. Wage increases are lagging behind Argentina’s soaring inflation rate, which some private economists estimate is around

Crops, Markets

Argentine state bank to cut off farmers who hoard soy

By GFM Network News, Hugh Bronstein December 13, 2014

Buenos Aires | Reuters — Argentina’s main state bank will deny credit to farmers who are holding onto soybeans as a hedge against inflation, a top official said on Friday, as the government cracks down on crop hoarding as part of a campaign to build up its dollar reserves. The grains-rich but cash-poor South American

Crops, Weather

Dry spell to create ideal conditions for Argentine grains

By GFM Network News, Reuters December 1, 2014

Buenos Aires | Reuters — Heavy rains during the weekend will be followed by a dry spell across much of Argentina’s grains belt, creating ideal growing conditions for the 2014-15 corn and soy crop, a local meteorologist said on Monday. German Heinzenknecht, meteorologist with the (CCA) Applied Climatology Consultancy, said about 50 millimetres fell across

Cereals, Crops

Argentina sees wheat harvest of 12 million tonnes

By GFM Network News, Reuters November 20, 2014

Buenos Aires | Reuters –– Argentine farmers will harvest 12 million tonnes of wheat in the 2014-15 crop year, the agriculture ministry said in its monthly report Thursday, issuing its first wheat crop estimate of the season. Argentina’s 2013-14 wheat harvest was 9.2 million tonnes, according to official data. “Losses have been seen in parts

Cereals, Grain Markets

Argentine Wheat And Corn Benefit From Rains

October 20, 2011

Buenos Aires/Reuters Rain over the last 10 days in Argentina s central grain area revitalized parched wheat fields and helped farmers with their corn sowing, but dry weather could return, a forecaster said Monday. This season got off to a rough start as planting was slowed by dry soils, but heavy rainfall last week allowed

Daily Network News

Trump tells farmers that tractor companies should lower prices

Get farmers in on federal water security strategy planning, CFA says

U.S. finalizes biofuel blending quotas for 2026-27, cuts RINS for foreign feedstocks

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Argentina tracks soy hoarding by registering silo bag sales

Optimism for Canada to plant 100K acres to sunflowers

Argentina to restrict wheat export permits if low prices paid

Argentina’s ‘Soy King’ abdicates in favor of biotech

Argentina denounces farmer soy hoarding, says hurts state income

Striking port workers in Argentine grains hub halt shipping

Argentine state bank to cut off farmers who hoard soy

Dry spell to create ideal conditions for Argentine grains

Argentina sees wheat harvest of 12 million tonnes

Argentine Wheat And Corn Benefit From Rains

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