USDA's ten-year price projection for corn released Thursday shows that prices would be below the so-called reference price that would trigger payments to farmers under the farm bill's new Price Loss Coverage.
The Indian agricultural food products have seen a dramatic rise in exports over the last two years – rising by 55 per cent two years ago and 13 per cent last year.
Kantar Worldpanel have just released some of the food retailers figures over the first 4 week period of 2014, from 30th December 2013-26th January 2014- notably including the 30th and 31st January.
Union Minister for Agriculture and Food Processing Sharad Pawar has said that India's exports of coconut products had more than doubled from Rs 496 crore ($79,886,062 USD) in 2010-11 to Rs 1022 crore ($164,603,942 USD) in 2012-13.
Every year in December, the Minister of Agriculture's Forecast service publishes its provisional estimates for the year presented in a document made from database and information available on the 15th November.
According to data provided by Bonn's Agricultural Information Service Market (AMI), the world's fruits and vegetables production during 2013 amounted to 1.74 billion tons, 9.4% more than in 2012 when the production amounted to 1.59 billion tons.
Indian guar futures hit their highest level in more than a week on Tuesday and are expected to extend gains in the next trading session on lower arrivals in the spot market.
Soyabean export premiums at the US Gulf Coast were mixed on Monday, underpinned by tight nearby loading capacity but capped by seasonally slowing demand for US supplies, traders said.
Vietnam sold 307,000 tons of rice to overseas markets in the first month of 2014, pocketing 127.5 million U.S. dollars, down 24.11 percent in volume and 30.5 percent in value, said a report by Vietnam Food Association (VFA).
China's top economic planner said Tuesday it would raise the minimum state purchasing prices for rice in major farming areas by up to 3.3 percent this year.
Top Croatian food group Podravka said its profitability improved even as 2013 sales were flat, showing the company's cost cutting programme was paying off.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture in its Feb. 10 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates projected U.S. sugar carryover on Oct. 1, 2014, at 1,825,000 short tons, raw value, down 56,000 tons
USDA left the U.S. ending stocks number for soybeans unchanged in its monthly World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report, deflating hopes of what some market-watchers said could be a bullish jolt for that pit.
