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Saudi Arabia Increases Storage Capacity

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Saudi Arabia expects to import 1.9 million tonnes of wheat in 2011, the director general of the state-run Grain Silos and Flour Mills Organization (GSFMO) said Oct. 19. Around 1.9 million tonnes this year and slightly more next year, Waleed el-Khereiji told reporters on the sidelines of a Russian grain conference in Egypt. The increase
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Reformist Japan Farmers Urge Free Trade To Spur Change

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Like other farmers on this fertile, coastal plain in northeast Japan, where patchwork rice fields stretch to the mountains beyond, Kazushi Saito knows first hand that the nation s shrinking agricultural sector is in dire straits. But unlike many, the 54-year-old rice farmer backs a controversial free trade deal that could remove a near 800
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Traders Struggle To Get A Handle On Stocks

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Grain traders were moaning recently about how the latest grain stocks report surprised the corn market with higher-than-anticipated corn inventories. Some even suggested that perhaps the USDA misreported how much grain was stored privately by farmers. But as a proportion of total on-farm storage capacity, U.S. corn farmers actually stored the lowest amount of their
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Kazakhstan Back In The Grain Export Business

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Kazakhstan s state-owned grain trader will return to the export market this season, shipping up to 1.5 million tonnes of what promises to be the country s biggest post- Soviet grain crop, the head of the company said. Beibitkhan Kabdrakhmanov, chairman of the management board at the Food Contract Corporat ion, forecast that Kazakhstan would
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Russia Steps Up New Crop Wheat Exports

moscow/reuters Russia s powerful grain lobby, the Russian Grain Union, raised its forecast for the country s exports on a better- than-expected crop, but warned that prices may fall towards the end of the year due to competition from other Black Sea states. The lobby now estimates Russia s grain exports in the current 2011-12
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U.S. Listeria Death Toll Hits 18

news reuters Eighteen people infected with listeria have died so far in the deadliest foodborne outbreak in the U.S. in more than a decade. One hundred people in 20 states have been infected with one of the four listeria strains involved, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Listeria monocytogenes is a frequent
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China Set For Bountiful Harvest

in brief reuters / Bad weather in parts of China s corn-growing province of Jilin may have spoiled some farmers hopes of a rich harvest, but expanded acreage means agronomists are sticking to forecasts that China will reap one of its best harvests in years. Farmers across the country have planted far more acres of
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Argentina Farmers Eye End To Unpopular Quota System

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Argentina s grains industry is debating a proposal to overhaul local corn and wheat markets so exporters pay farmers higher prices a reform the government could very well adopt. The state intervenes in corn and wheat trade now with incremental export quotas and subsidies to local millers, which are aimed at guaranteeing affordable food supplies
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In Brief… – for Sep. 22, 2011

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Sask. harvest ahead of normal:Saskatchewan farmers had harvested 60 per cent of the overall 2011 crop as of Sept. 12, moving ahead of the five-year average of 47 per cent after a week of favourable weather, the provincial government said last Thursday in a weekly report. Harvest progress was the most advanced for this time

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