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The rise of Twitter and other modern mysteries

By Laura Rance-Unger November 14, 2013

One of the great mysteries of the modern world has to be how a company like Twitter, a micro-blogging medium built around delivering short bursts of inconsequential information, can attract a value of $25 billion in its initial stock offering when the company hasn’t turned a profit since it was formed seven years ago —

Cereals, Grain Markets, Oilseeds, US Markets

GRAINS-Corn falls for 3rd day on rising global supplies, soy dips

By Reuters November 14, 2013

* Corn falls as record U.S. harvest boosts supply * Soybeans ease for the 1st time in 7 sessions (Adds details, quotes) By Naveen Thukral SINGAPORE, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Chicago corn lost more ground on Thursday, falling for a third consecutive session as the harvest of a record-large crop in the United States boosts

Cereals, Grain Markets, US Markets

GRAINS-Corn sags on profit-taking; EPA ethanol move awaited

By Reuters November 14, 2013

* Corn market bracing for smaller 2014 U.S. ethanol mandate * Soybeans end higher after choppy trade * Good South American soy crop prospects overhang market * Wheat firm on short-covering after seven-session slide (Updates with closing prices, adds ADM ethanol comment, wheat export news) By Julie Ingwersen CHICAGO, Nov 13 (Reuters) - U.S. corn

Grain Markets, Oilseeds, US Markets

U.S. Cash Grains-Corn bids firm, soy mixed as harvest nears end

By Reuters November 13, 2013

Nov 13 (Reuters) - Corn cash basis bids were steady to higher around the U.S. Midwest early on Wednesday, while soybean bids rose at processing plants in Illinois and Nebraska as the harvest of each crop neared completion and farmers sold only small amounts, dealers said. * U.S. Agriculture Department data late on Tuesday showed

Grain Markets, Oilseeds, US Markets

U.S. Cash Grains-Corn bids mixed after big sales ahead of report

By Reuters November 8, 2013

Nov 8 (Reuters) - Corn cash basis bids were mixed around the U.S. Midwest early on Friday after a spike in sales pressured bids at some processors, while an overall slow pace of sales bolstered the basis at ethanol plants, grain merchants said. * Many growers increased sales of the yellow grain ahead of the

Farmer Dale Tuholski adjusts his new pivot-irrigation system in Mill Creek, Indiana, June 11, 2012. A new study questions whether water costs will negate the benefits of ethanol.  photo: REUTERS/John Gress

Opinion

New study predicts rising irrigation costs, reduced yields for U.S. corn

By Rice University Release July 5, 2013

If the climate continues to evolve as predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United States stands little to no chance of satisfying its current biofuel goals, according to a new study by Rice University and the University of California at Davis. The study published online in the American Chemical Society journal Environmental

Crops

Ontario expected to ship a million tonnes of corn to the U.S. for feed and ethanol

By Karl Plume, Rod Nickel April 9, 2013

Reuters / Canadian corn is flowing to U.S. ethanol plants and feed suppliers in larger-than-usual volumes, with up to one million tonnes expected in 2012-13, as a large Ontario crop backfills demand after last year’s severe U.S. drought. Canada is normally a net importer of corn, feeding Eastern Canada’s pigs and poultry and supplying Ontario

Crops, News, Weather

Ethanol maker plans controversial water wells to maintain production through drought

By P.J. Huffstutter March 28, 2013

Reuters / In a bid to churn out ethanol even in the worst of droughts, Archer Daniels Midland Co., the nation’s largest producer of corn-based biofuel, is preparing to break ground on two new water collector wells to aid a key Illinois corn-processing plant. The 40-foot collector wells, to be dug on the company’s property

Crops, Grain Markets

Ethanol eyed for lowering U.S. surplus sugar mountain

By Charles Abbott March 28, 2013

Reuters / The U.S. government is readying a tool created during last decade’s biofuels craze — a never-used program to sell sugar at a loss to ethanol makers — as a way to whittle a looming sugar surplus down to an affordable size. The sugar-for-ethanol program could be a lower-cost way for the Agriculture Department

Crops, Weather

Like most American belts, the Corn Belt has expanded too

By Julie Ingwersen March 25, 2013

North Dakota corn acreage has doubled since 2006 and quadrupled since 2001 Reuters / A combination of a long-term warming trend, improved varieties and soaring profits has sparked a “corn boom” in the Northern Plains that might one day turn North and South Dakota into the new Iowa, analysts say. “All you need to do

Daily Network News

U.S. grains: Soybeans hit six-week low as Brazilian harvest looms; corn, wheat sag

U.S. livestock: CME cattle futures end lower, hogs mostly lower

CFIA adds controls for imports of Spanish feed ingredients after African swine fever outbreak

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