Published: Jan 13, 2014

Cargill has reported its second-quarter fiscal 2014 results, which include net earnings up 36 per cent from a year ago and its Animal Nutrition and Proteins division contributing significantly higher earnings.

Published: Jan 13, 2014

A recent coalition agreement between the Christian Democratic party and the Green party in the German state of Hesse calls for the region’s agriculture to be ‘biotech free’ but this action is largely symbolic.

Published: Jan 10, 2014

Today Agspring announced the formation of Big River Rice and Grain, a new grain storage and merchandising entity operating in Louisiana.

Published: Jan 10, 2014

Monsanto Co. said it has moved from the “proof of concept” phase into the “early development” phase for its herbicide-tolerant wheat

Published: Jan 10, 2014

CHS Inc., the nation's leading farmer-owned cooperative and a global energy, grains and foods company, reported net income of $242.2 million for the first quarter of its 2014 fiscal year.

Published: Jan 06, 2014

Chinese scientists have cultivated a high-yield salt-resistant rice variety that boasts an output of six tonnes per hectare.

Published: Jan 02, 2014

Summer cereal crop production is expected to go up by 10.81 per cent this fiscal year due to good monsoon, decline in cases of natural disasters, and use of modern technology.

Published: Jan 02, 2014

China's wheat imports are expected to hit a nine-year high in 2013, as the country continues to turn to the international market to meet a surging demand for the grain for use in high-protein foods, animal feed, industry and processed goods.

Published: Dec 31, 2013

The market price for agricultural food products in China rose slightly over the week of 16-22 December according to a survey carried out by the Ministry of Commerce in 36 large and medium sized cities.

Published: Dec 26, 2013

China will stick with policies to maintain food self-sufficiency and protect farmland from urban encroachment, dampening speculation that new reforms would give the market a bigger say in food supply and rural development.

Published: Dec 25, 2013

Cargill has announced that construction has begun to expand storage and rail at its Viking, AB grain handling facility.

Published: Dec 25, 2013

Amira Nature Foods has signed a deal to take over Basmati Rice, a Germany-based premium branded rice distributor, for an undisclosed amount.

Published: Dec 23, 2013

Bayer CropScience Ltd. signed an MoU with CITIC Trust Ltd. on innovation & development of modern agricultural technology within the background of land transfer on December 17 in Beijing.

Published: Dec 23, 2013

Sino Agro Food, a China-based food company focused on developing, producing and distributing agricultural products, has formed a new wholly-owned subsidiary in Sweden.

Published: Dec 23, 2013

Japan's Ministry of Agriculture bought a total of 109,244 tonnes of food quality wheat from the United States in a regular tender that closed late on Thursday.

Published: Dec 20, 2013

Purdue University researchers have confirmed the long-held hypothesis that sorghum deters insects from feeding on its leaves by releasing hydrogen cyanide.

Published: Dec 19, 2013

HGCA’s recent call for new Monitor Farms has prompted an enthusiastic response from cereals and oilseeds growers.

Published: Dec 19, 2013

With about 120,000 to 125,000 acres harvested, and about average yields, this year’s peanut crop is certainly much better than it has been the past few growing seasons, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service expert.

Published: Dec 19, 2013

A trio of headlines in the grain marketplace emerged in morning trading, and though corn futures haven't budged much, soybeans and wheat have tumbled in morning trading.

Published: Dec 19, 2013

The board of directors of Archer Daniels Midland Co. on Dec. 16 raised its regular quarterly dividend 26%, to 24c per share from 19c per share.