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Global Corn Scenario: U.S. Grows Less, China Eats More

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U.S. corn supplies, already stretched thin by relentless feed, fuel and food demand, will grow even tighter in the coming year due to a rain-shortened crop, the government projected June 9. The USDA said rains and floods prevented farmers from planting all the corn they had planned. That means a drop of 300 million bushels
Cereals, Crops

Seed Maker Pioneer Races For Crops As Climate Changes

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Achanging climate that many scientists fear will hurt global crop production means seed makers must work harder to meet food needs as world population grows by 30 per cent by 2050, a top world seed executive said. “Agriculture production is moving to the North because those climates are becoming warmer. Some of those environments are
Opinion

Marketing Into Growing Economies

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It’s one of those rare times at present, when every sector of agriculture is receiving profitable prices from the marketplace. This fits well with the theory of an increasing worldwide population and the growing demand for food. It’s comforting to believe that as farmers we can just continue to do what we’re doing and watch
Crops

Analyst Says Demand To Keep U.S. Wheat Prices High

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U.S. wheat prices will stay at historically high levels this year given strong global food demand but they will not top the record highs seen in 2008, a top commodities market analyst said Feb. 9. “The trend is clearly up. I don’t think under any circumstance are we going to see anything close to what
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National Science Agency Axes Food Research

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Agricultural scientists and farm groups are expressing dismay at a decision by a federal research agency to stop funding food research. The decision by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council sends a negative message, both at home and abroad, that Canada is not interested in research which a hungry world urgently needs, say researchers
Crops

Private Equity Sees “Buckets Of Money” In Water Buys

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Water scarcity will generate big returns for the irrigation sector once climate change and population growth take their toll on farming, private equity managers said Nov. 9. Asked at an agriculture investing conference whether it is possible to make money from water, typically a public good rather than a bankable commodity, Judson Hill of NGP
Grain Markets

Australia’s GrainCorp To Buy Rival AWB – for Aug. 5, 2010

SYDNEY/REUTERS Australia’s GrainCorp has agreed to take over smaller rival AWB in an A$855 million (US$769.6 million) all-share deal that will create the country’s top grain exporter and the world’s fourth-largest commercial malt producer. GrainCorp said July 30 its offer would create a combined group with a market capitalization of more than A$2 billion that
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Farming Reform Needed To End Hunger Without Obesity

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Agriculture needs revolutionary change to confront threats such as global warming and end hunger in developing nations without adding to the ranks of the obese, an international study shows. The report says South Asia and Africa were “battlegrounds for poverty reduction” as the world population rose to a peak in 2050. Prospects for quick advances
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Farmers Want More Research Spending

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Groups representing more than 100,000 crop growers are launching a campaign to push for more investment in agricultural research in Canada. Called Farmers for Investment in Agriculture (FIA), the campaign wants Ottawa to at least reverse the 40 per cent decline in public research funding for agronomics that has occurred since 1994. Inflation and less
Cereals, Crops, Opinion

A Powerful Legacy

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World attention was focused last week to the passing of Norman Borlaug, the American scientist known as the Father of the Green Revolution and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his efforts to end world hunger. Borlaug died at the age of 95, still passionately committed to the role science can and

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