Indonesia has made another attempt to free up soybean imports and allow wider participation in the oilseed trade, a trade ministry official said on Friday, in the government's latest moves to quell rising food inflation.
The 2013 corn harvest was 4 percent complete as of Sept. 15 in the 18 major states, below the 2008-2012 average of 10 percent, the US Department of Agriculture said in its Crop Progress report released yesterday.
The detection of a small amount of genetically modified material in a Washington state farmer's non-GMO alfalfa crop constitutes a "commercial issue" only and does not warrant any government action, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday.
Chinese agricultural experts have clarified a list of genetically modified food that has been officially approved, a move in response to wide debates over the safety of such products in daily life.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is evaluating whether or not to take action in the case of a Washington state farmer whose alfalfa crop was contaminated with a genetically modified trait that some export customers will not accept.
U.S. 2013 corn production was forecast at 13,843,320,000 bus, up 80,295,000 bus, or about 1%, from 13,763,025,000 bus forecast in August and up 28% from 10,780,296,000 bus in 2012.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture in its Sept. 12 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates projected 2013-14 global ending stocks of wheat at 176.28 million tonnes, up 2% from the August projection of 172.99 million tonnes
Agribusiness Cargill Inc CARG.UL on Wednesday said its chief executive officer will step down on December 1 in the latest management shuffle among the world's top agricultural trading houses.
For the past six years, Israel has been a small but steady buyer of US corn co-products such as distiller's dried grains with solubles (DDGS), corn gluten feed and corn gluten meal.
A total of 11% of the soybean crop in the 18 major states advanced to the stage of dropping leaves by Sept. 8, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in its latest Crop Progress report, down from 19% as the 2008-12 average on the same date.
A falling rupiah, rising international soybean prices and a backfiring policy on food self-sufficiency have combined to drive up the cost of one of Indonesia's favourite staple foods and sparked artisan food makers to down tools in protest.
Farmers in the Mekong Delta provinces of Dong Thap, Kien Giang, Hau Giang, and Can Tho have begun harvesting of more than 20,000 hectares of early autumn-winter rice crop.
A multinational effort supported by the International Atomic Energy Agency and FAO marked a key milestone this week when a Kenyan university debuted two new varieties of disease-resistant wheat to the nation's farmers.
December Corn finished down 5 3/4 at 469 1/2, 5 3/4 off the high and 3 1/4 up from the low. March Corn closed down 5 1/2 at 482 1/2. This was 3 1/2 up from the low and 5 1/2 off the high.
A group of U.S. farmers, seed companies and others challenging patents on genetically altered crops held by biotech seed giant Monsanto Co. on Thursday appealed their case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Following the release of its Outlook for US Agricultural Trade, USDA projects that Fiscal Year 2013 agricultural exports will reach $140 billion, which if realized would be a new record.
December Corn finished up 1/2 at 482, 2 off the high and 5 3/4 up from the low. March Corn closed up 1/4 at 494 1/2. This was 5 1/2 up from the low and 2 1/4 off the high.
