Published: Nov 19, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

World barley production is forecast down to 130.8Mt from last year's 134.3Mt, according to the latest USDA report.

Published: Nov 16, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

SunFoods, a US-based supplier and manufacturer of rice products, has launched new Hinode Rice family size microwavable pouches for retailers across the nation.

Published: Nov 16, 2012 By: Mike McGinnis

The trade is expecting a choppy day of CME Group corn, soybean and wheat prices, with a quiet overnight and little fresh news Thursday.

Published: Nov 15, 2012

Global wheat production during the 2012-13 crop year is forecast to fall to 649.30 million metric tons from 695.69 million tons a year earlier, a prominent U.S. commodities analyst said Wednesday.

Published: Nov 15, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Scientists at Land-Grant Universities across the states have been awarded an Experiment Station Section Award for their research into identifying management strategies for soybean rust.

Published: Nov 15, 2012

North Korea is estimated to secure a total of 4.4 million tons of rice and corn to feed its people next year, an international organisation said Friday.

Published: Nov 15, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

Through joint research efforts to improve photosynthesis and increase total plant biomass, it is expected that over the next 20 years wheat yields will rise by 50 per cent, said the Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Foo

Published: Nov 15, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

The National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) will offer a webinar on Thursday, 29 November, to explain Adjusted Gross Revenue Lite .

Published: Nov 15, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

The Harper Government is investing in the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council of Canada (PIJAC) to help develop global markets for Canadian pet food producers, announced Parliamentary Secretary Pierre Lemieux on behalf of Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz.

Published: Nov 14, 2012 By: Tom Doran

Soybeans reaching the 100-bushel-per-acre level once was a pipedream, but field trials are aiming to make those yields a reality.

Published: Nov 14, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

The USDA's November forecasts of the size of the 2012 U.S. corn and soybean crops were larger than expected, particularly for soybeans.

Published: Nov 14, 2012 By: Foodmate Team

During the July-October 2012 period, Ukraine exported about four million metric tons of wheat, almost 2.7 million metric tons of corn and a mere 1.5 million metric tons of barley.

Published: Nov 13, 2012 By: Steve Meyer and Len Steiner

USDA released on Friday its latest estimates of US and world grain and oilseed supplies and the numbers were generally larger than expected by the trade, write Steve Meyer and Len Steiner.

Published: Nov 13, 2012 By: Jeff Caldwell

Warm weather for about half of the weekend wasn't too kind on corn in storage, especially those bushels that were put away a little higher on the moisture scale.

Published: Nov 13, 2012 By: Darrel Good

The USDA’s November forecasts of the size of the 2012 U.S. corn and soybean crops were larger than expected, particularly for soybeans.

Published: Nov 13, 2012

This week, Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and other members of Parliament will fan out across Canada making Growing Forward announcements that will highlight the benefits of Canada's new agricultural policy framework, Growing Forward 2.

Published: Nov 12, 2012

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Food Price Index fell one per cent in October 2012, and for the first ten months of the year food prices were on average eight per cent lower than in the same period in 2011.

Published: Nov 12, 2012

Japan has bought at least 500,000 metric tons of U.S. feed-grade corn for January-March shipment, stepping up purchases from the world's top exporter despite higher costs compared with Brazilian corn.

Published: Nov 09, 2012 By: Jeff Caldwell

Friday's USDA Crop Production and World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates reports are expected to show U.S. farmers have raised a bigger soybean crop in 2012 than traders and crop-watchers expected earlier in the growing season.

Published: Nov 09, 2012

The Harper Government is opening markets and creating more trade opportunities for the benefit of farmers and the food industry.