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No way to duck crop insurance disaster

By Alan Guebert July 20, 2012

Many on Capitol Hill are quick to point out that “if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it’s a duck.” What they never add is that this little blinding glimpse of the obvious has never stopped legislative quackery in the past, and it’s not stopping it now. For example, as

International news, News

Agricultural research funds escape austerity cuts

By Nigel Hunt June 8, 2012

Reuters / Public spending on agricultural research is on the rise, despite austerity drives in many countries, as price spikes and problems linked with climate change propel food security towards the top of government agendas, the head of a leading research body said. “People have realized that feeding the world without destroying the environment is

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Global food prices on the rise again

May 3, 2012

reuters / Global food prices are rising again, pushed higher by costlier oil, strong demand from Asia and bad weather in parts of Europe, South America and the United States, the World Bank said April 25. The latest World Bank food price index showed the cost of food rose eight per cent between December and

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Canada lagging in ag research

By Alex Binkley April 20, 2012

Canadian agriculture is being shortchanged by governments when it comes to basic research compared to other countries, according to John Cranfield of the University of Guelph. “We are standing still while other countries are getting ahead of us,” said Cranfield, citing statistics from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. The professor, an agricultural economist,

International news, News

Looming political fight puts U.S. farmers on battlefield

By Charles Abbott March 23, 2012

Analysis: It usually takes a year to draft new Farm Bill but the cost of failure may be too high to bear

(Reuters) U.S. lawmakers are short on time and money to make the biggest cuts in agriculture in a generation and failure risks unintentionally driving up food prices and adding to an already onerous deficit. Fractious Republicans and Democrats may wait until the last minute to agree to significant cuts to farm supports amid historically high

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Experts search for ways to cut food waste

By Ernest Scheyder, Lisa Baertlein March 24, 2012

Reuters — Cleaning your plate may not help feed starving children today, but the time-worn advice of mothers everywhere may help reduce food waste from the farm to the fork, help the environment and make it easier to feed the world’s growing population. Hard data is still being collected, but experts at the Reuters Food

International news, News, Weather

U.K. on drought watch

By Reuters March 14, 2012

Large parts of Britain are facing a drought this year after groundwater reached levels not seen for more than 35 years, which could spell restrictions for farmers and households. Rivers, canals and reservoirs are running low after a second dry winter in a row, with some areas receiving less than 70 per cent of normal

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Falling crop prices may be a harvest for retail

By David K. Randall March 14, 2012

Corn, wheat and cotton prices are expected to fall — and that could lead to gains in sectors far removed from the farm. Deere & Company predicted on its February earnings call that agricultural commodities will lose ground this year. The farm equipment maker estimates that corn prices will fall 17 per cent through the

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Glass is still half full for flush American farmers

By Christopher Doering, Tom Polansek March 14, 2012

Brian Roach scrawled a simple outlook for corn prices in a spiral notebook, with a line diving from the upper left hand corner to the lower right. Sitting in a hotel ballroom at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s annual Agricultural Outlook Forum last week, the commodity broker predicted increasing supplies and weakening demand would slow

International news, News

Cuba reports food output up 8.7 per cent in 2011

March 5, 2012

Cuba’s non-sugar agricultural production increased 8.7 per cent in 2011, the government said this week, an indication reforms aimed at reversing a farm crisis and cutting food imports may be kicking in. Produce output was up 11.5 per cent and livestock and related products six per cent, according to the report issued by the National

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U.S. livestock: Cattle, hog futures rise on first WASDE since September

U.S. export sales include only small soybean business to China

U.S. corn and soybean yields revised down by USDA

Tag Archives food prices

No way to duck crop insurance disaster

Agricultural research funds escape austerity cuts

Global food prices on the rise again

Canada lagging in ag research

Looming political fight puts U.S. farmers on battlefield

Experts search for ways to cut food waste

U.K. on drought watch

Falling crop prices may be a harvest for retail

Glass is still half full for flush American farmers

Cuba reports food output up 8.7 per cent in 2011

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