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USDA hears earful about corn estimates at annual meeting

By Tom Polansek October 26, 2012

Reuters / Top U.S. agriculture officials Monday were to face questions about quarterly estimates for corn inventories that have frustrated traders and roiled markets for the past two years. Traders said they would raise their concerns about supply estimates at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s annual meeting in Chicago for users of agricultural data. The

Crops, News

Corn seed might be tight next spring

By Daniel Winters October 17, 2012

Rising corn acres and severe drought in the Midwestern United States may crimp supplies of popular corn seed varieties for the coming year. “It’s really short,” said Ron Rabe, a Dekalb agronomist, who gave a brief talk on corn production in Manitoba at a recent WADO field tour. Derek Erb, who farms near Oak Bluff

News

Ag secretary says U.S. isn’t “going to run out of corn”

October 17, 2012

washington / reuters U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says tight corn stocks aren’t a cause for concern. “We really have to wait until the kernels are counted and the (soy) beans are counted to know the impact of the drought,” said Vilsack. “I don’t think the United States of America is going to run out

Country Crossroads, News

Thankful for the simple things

By Eva Krawchuk October 10, 2012

Some of the most simple things in life are what bring joy and warmth. I had been reminiscing and telling my granddaughter about the good old days and how my mother would grow her own corn for popcorn, dry the cobs and then with a wringing motion, remove the kernels that would fall into a

International news, News

Land battles inflame Kenya

September 22, 2012

nairobi / reuters / A government minister has pleaded innocent to charges of inciting violence in which over 100 people have been shot, hacked and burnt to death in strife over land and water in Kenya’s coastal region. The scale and sudden intensity of the unrest over the past month has led many Kenyans to

Crops, News

Popcorn soon to cost more than the movie

By Reuters September 17, 2012

For more than half a century, the Shew family has harvested mountains of popcorn kernels to be buttered, salted and munched by movie fans. But as a crippling Midwestern drought sends commodity soybean and grain prices soaring, the family’s farmland in west-central Indiana is suffering. Plants are listing, stalks are spindly and corn ears small.

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U.S. corn farmers nervous over dry forecast

By Karl Plume July 20, 2012

Some farmers in the eastern U.S. Corn Belt have been buying back contracts of corn sold to their local elevators for post-harvest delivery as a deepening drought raised concern that there may be no grain to deliver. Volumes of buybacks have been minimal thus far, but grain merchants expect there will be more as weather

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News

IGC sees record maize crop in 2012-13

By Nigel Hunt April 7, 2012

Global maize production is projected to rise to a record 900 million tonnes in 2012-13, outstripping demand for the first time since the 2008-09 season, the International Grains Council said April 2. The IGC, in a monthly report, also cut its forecast for the global maize stocks at the end of the 2011-12 season following

Cereals, Crops, Grain Markets, News

IGC sees global maize deficit

By Nigel Hunt March 29, 2012

Reuters / World maize production should climb in 2012-13 but is likely to remain below consumption as demand for meat boosts feed use, International Grains Council senior economist Amy Reynolds said March 14. Reynolds, in a presentation at the Agra Europe outlook conference, put the 2012-13 global maize crop at 880 million tonnes, up from

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China set to buy more U.S. corn this year

By Naveen Thukral March 23, 2012

(Reuters) Strong domestic prices and low reserves are likely to force China to import more U.S. corn this year, squeezing tight world supplies, analysts and industry officials said March 14. China’s corn imports are expected to more than double in the current 2011-12 crop year to four million tonnes from 1.5 million a year earlier,

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Canadian agriculture must be seen as growth sector: Blois

Chicken, eggs benefit from demand for economical protein

Spain detects first swine fever cases outside initial Barcelona outbreak zone

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