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Greek farmers stage tractor protest against soaring energy costs

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Larissa | Reuters — Farmers in central Greece on Friday protested with hundreds of tractors against soaring energy costs, dismissing government support measures as inadequate and demanding more help to cope with rising prices. The farmers parked tractors on a national highway near the town of Larissa in central Greece, where they faced off with
Crops, Oilseeds

High Grain Prices Won’t Last Forever

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High grain prices make farmers happy, but they make market analyst Chuck Penner nervous. It’s not that Penner, with LeftField Commodity Research, doesn’t like high prices. His apprehension comes from knowing sometime those prices will fall. When prices last spiked in 2007-08 at close to these levels, they went a bit higher and then fell
Crops

How High Will Corn Prices Go Before Usage Is Rationed?

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The national average corn yield was the main focus of cash and futures market traders in the Oct. 8, 2010, World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report. Many market analysts consider this report a “game changer.” The resulting price rally in crop markets has people beginning to ask if this could be a repeat
Crops

Resilience Key To Survival

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Modern industrial agriculture needs less efficiency and more resiliency if it’s going to feed billions more people in a world turned upside down by exploding energy prices and climate change. It sounds counterintuitive, but University of Waterloo Professor Thomas Homer-Dixon warns the current system is too “brittle” to withstand the challenges ahead. “I hate to
Cereals, Crops, News

Algeria’s Grain Output Drive Starts To Pay Off

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Algeria is moving to slash grain imports in coming years as the government enacts urgent reforms to stop farm yields tumbling in times of drought. The authorities were shocked into action in 2008 when the national grain harvest slumped to 2.1 million tonnes and the government scrambled for foreign cereals to feed the population of
Beef cattle, Livestock

Livestock Sector Recovery Driven By Demand

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The return of consumer confidence will be the key driver behind recovery in the livestock sector, an economist with the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) says. “Tough times across the livestock sector can get better this year, but it will take demand, demand, demand,” Scott Brown told University of Missouri Extension livestock specialists.
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Harsh U. S. Winter Weather Supports Commodity Markets

“It was a very wet, late crop and it is very hard to store.” – don roose, u. s. commodi ti es Brutal winter weather across much of the United States has helped rally commodity markets as energy demand rises, crops are hit with snow or frost and livestock movement is slowed. Two strong winter
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Grains Boom With Hot Money

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Low U. S. interest rates and the weak dollar are drawing more hot money into grain markets despite the weight of mammoth crops, setting up a potential repeat of last year’s boom and bust in that market. As index funds and other big investors pour cash into futures at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT),
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Index Tracks Hunger Indicators

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The world has made little progress in reducing hunger since 1990, a new report said on Oct. 14, pointing to 29 countries with alarming levels of malnutrition, mainly in Africa and South Asia. Those countries also are most vulnerable to the impact of historically high food and energy prices, as well as economic recession –
Cereals, Opinion

Manitoba Farmer Gives Commons Committee An Earful

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Politicians and farm groups spend too much time debating marketing boards, the Canadian Wheat Board and farm safety nets and not enough on what will really help producers, a southwestern Manitoba farmer told the Commons agriculture committee recently. “Those three areas of policy suck 90 per cent of the oxygen out of the ag policy

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