Harvest of the main 2014 second season “safrinha” maize crop is about to begin. Earlier forecasts for the harvest have been revised upwards due to higher than expected plantings and better yield estimates.
Despite the devastation brought about by Typhoon Yolanda (international name Haiyan) during the latter part in 2013, Philippine agriculture still managed to grow by 0.67 per cent in its output for the first quarter of this year
Corn dropped to the lowest level since March on speculation that farmers accelerated planting because of dry and warm weather in the US, the world’s biggest exporter.
South Sudan is at a risk of famine unless humanitarian assistance is provided now, FAO Deputy Director-General for Operations Dan Gustafson told a humanitarian pledging conference for the country in Oslo.
Wheat farmers in China's Hubei province have begun to harvest the 16.82 million mu (about 1.1 million hectares/ 2.7 million acres) of local wheat fields.
Egypt aims to buy about half of its domestic wheat harvest this year at 4.4 million tonnes and is unlikely ever to get much more from farmers, who need to reserve the rest for seed and to feed their families.
With demand of bakery, value added and ready-to-eat wheat products are increasing, India’s wheat production will touch 100 million tonnes by 2016-17 (April 2016 to March 2017) fiscal year.
COFCO Corp., China's largest grain trader, is raising a $3.2 billion syndicated loan to back its acquistion of Noble Group's NOBF.SI agribusiness arm and repay a shareholder loan, banking sources said on Wednesday.
ConAgra Foods Inc, Cargill Inc CARG.UL and CHS Inc won U.S. antitrust approval on Tuesday to merge their North American flour mill operations after agreeing to sell four mills to a Japanese company.
A Purdue Extension agricultural economist has published two articles that include analysis of what the 2014 farm bill could mean for farmers and agriculture in the Midwest.
Mumbai based global generic crop protection, chemicals and seeds company, UPL (formerly United Phosphorus Limited) has recorded at 29 per cent increase in consolidated profit at $59.82 million for the fourth quarter ended March 31, 2014 (January-March).
India has recorded a 20 per cent increase in oilmeal exports at 236,835 tonnes for April 2014, as compared to 197,554 tonnes, the Solvent Extractors’ Association of India (SEA) said in a statement on May 7, 2014.
Corn planting in the 18 major US states for the week ended May 11 surpassed the 2009-13 average for that date, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said in its latest Crop Progress report.
