After Hitting Bottom, Phosphate Fertilizer Prices To Rise

While investors have been obsessed with when demand for potash will rebound, another key crop nutrient has quietly pushed into the spotlight as tight supplies ratchet up prices. Phosphate is starting to command more investor attention as production outages have limited supplies of the crop nutrient and dragged down inventories. Though the crunch might not

Policy Shifts Can Be Penny-Wise But Dollar Foolish

The 1996 Farm Bill’s elimination of the grain storage program, coupled with the elimination of an acreage management program, increased the cost to taxpayers for farm programs by an average of $5.7 billion a year. During the debate over the 1996 Farm Bill, the proponents for eliminating a government stock program argued that the traditional


Nexera Growing At Bunge Altona

The owners have changed a few times and so have the oilseeds it crushes, but the processing plant farmers built here in 1946 still epitomizes the concept of “value added.” In fact, this plant has been “value adding” since long before the words became part of the Prairie lexicon. Canola, the oilseed it processes almost

Biggest Brazil Soy State Loses Taste For GMO Seed

Farmers in Brazil’s Mato Grosso, the country’s top soy state, are shunning once-heralded, genetically modified soy varieties in favour of conventional seeds after the hi-tech type showed poor yields. “We’re seeing less and less planting of GMO soy around here. It doesn’t give consistent performance,” said Jeferson Bif, who grows soy and corn on a