Published: Jul 04, 2012

The Centre will make additional allocations of food grains and sugar to Kerala in view of the forthcoming Onam festival.

Published: Jul 04, 2012

India has launched a program to achieve more than 19 million tonne pulse in the Kharif season – the rainy season in the country which starts in May and ends in January.

Published: Jul 04, 2012

The CME Group corn, soybean and wheat markets will continue their run upward, as debilitating crop-weather dominates the traders' minds Tuesday.

Published: Jul 04, 2012

Observers of the currently pegging peanut crop said they were optimistic 2012 will be a recovery year after two disappointing years hurt mostly by persistent drought, although the growing season still had a long ways to go.

Published: Jul 03, 2012

Bay State Milling Co. has launched Contadino, a pizza flour developed for Neapolitan-style pizza, and Easy GrAin, a pizza crust mix designed to add more whole grains to the final product.

Published: Jul 03, 2012

The preliminary national average price received by farmers for all wheat in June was $6.37 per bu, down 30c from $6.67 in May and down $1.04 from $7.41 in June 2011, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in its latest Agricultural Prices report.

Published: Jul 03, 2012

The International Grains Council on July 2 forecast world wheat production in 2012-13 at 665 million tonnes, down 6 million tonnes from its May projection and down 30 million tonnes, or 4%, from a record 695 million tonnes in 2011-12.

Published: Jul 03, 2012

Mitsui & Co. Ltd. is now a 10-percent shareholder in Sodrugestvo Group SA and both companies will become strategic partners in some of their businesses.

Published: Jul 03, 2012

U.S. corn futures led grain and soybeans futures higher Monday, as traders continue to factor in the risk of smaller crop sizes from stressful U.S. Midwest weather.

Published: Jul 03, 2012

This year’s corn needs rain and needs it soon.

Published: Jun 30, 2012

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) appears to have nailed shut the door for soy-cholesterol reducing health claims in the European Union, after dismissing a series of formal objections to its third rejection of the bean’s cholesterol-lowering capac

Published: Jun 30, 2012

Sri Lanka has imposed a ban on rice exports until its harvest season next March, as a part of its effort to ensure adequate rice stocks at affordable prices amid severe drought across country's major rice-producing areas.

Published: Jun 30, 2012

General Mills, Inc. has introduced Fiber One Nutty Clusters & Almonds cereal.

Published: Jun 30, 2012

June 1 stocks of corn were down 14 percent from a year earlier while soybean stocks were up 8 percent, according to data from the US Department of Agriculture quarterly Grain Stocks report.

Published: Jun 30, 2012

The USDA raised its estimate of U.S. 2012 soybean acreage while tightening grain stocks Friday.

Published: Jun 29, 2012

U.S. government forecasters on Friday are likely to raise their estimates of the country's planted corn and soybean acreage by 0.1% and 2.3%, respectively, according to analysts polled by Dow Jones Newswires.

Published: Jun 29, 2012

The Harper Government today announced a one-time injection to provide a strong foundation for the Canadian Wheat Board’s (CWB) transition into the new grain marketing era.

Published: Jun 28, 2012

Monsanto Company's fiscal third-quarter profit jumped 35% as farmers planted more corn across the U.S. heartland this year.

Published: Jun 28, 2012

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz delivered the keynote address today at the 26th Annual Convention of the Canadian Special Crops Association (CSCA), where he was honoured as this year's recipient of the President's Award.

Published: Jun 27, 2012

India-based Rasi Seeds and Evogene will collaborate in efforts to increase yield and drought tolerance in rice.