U.S. chemical and seed company DuPont said on Wednesday it completed its three-year effort to buy a majority stake in South Africa's largest seed company.
India’s main (Kharif) rice crop planting area has increased to around 19.6 million hectares, up around seven per cent from around 18.4 million hectares rice planting area seen during this time last year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.
Excessively wet weather in the Northern Midwest has hurt the condition of edible bean crops in the region and led to widespread nervousness in the industry that prices may soar on very tight supplies.
The Farm Service Agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture on July 26 published its final rule on the Feedstock Flexibility Program (F.F.P.) that will allow the U.S.D.A. to purchase excess sugar to resell for use in ethanol production.
Shares of Bunge Ltd. fell as much as 11% in early trading on July 25 after earnings at the global agribusiness and food company failed to meet expectations.
Trading houses and roasters snapped up robustas from Vietnam and Indonesia this week as premiums softened and farmers unloaded more beans, dealers said on Thursday.
Corn prices slumped to their lowest since 2010, sending wheat futures to contract lows on both side of the Atlantic, as forecasts for benign Midwest weather during the important pollination period spurred the further removal of weather premium.
The European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Dacian Ciolos, is in Beijing, China, from 22 to 24 July 2013, strengthening EU-China cooperation in the areas of agriculture and rural development.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on July 23 issued a second, smaller invitation to buy domestic raw cane sugar to exchange for refined sugar re-export credits in a continued effort to reduce the current domestic sugar surplus.
