The transition to lower prices is occurring differently for corn, soybeans, and wheat. Corn and wheat prices have come under the most pressure due to large US and/or world crops in 2013.
About 30 percent of the major global cereal crops – rice, wheat and corn - may have reached their maximum possible yields in farmers’ fields, according to UNL research published this week in Nature Communications.
Islamic finance volume will be reaching at US $ 2 trillion with having 78% share of Islamic banking, 16% Sukuk, 1% Takaful, 4% Islamic funds and 1% Islamic Microfinance: Zubair Mughal.
Farm produce prices in 36 major Chinese cities stayed mostly flat in the week ending Dec. 29 compared with the previous week, according to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Commerce.
Copa-Cogeca has released final EU-27 cereals estimates for the 2013/14 marketing year, confirming a good 2013 grain harvest and quality, up 4.5 per cent on last years levels.
The U.S. beef industry's dependence on the muscle-building drug Zilmax began unraveling here, on a sweltering summer day, in the dusty cattle pens outside a Tyson Foods Inc slaughterhouse in southeastern Washington state.
Malaysian palm oil futures ended nearly flat on Monday, reversing some gains made earlier on last-minute selling towards the session's close, although fears of more monsoon floods supported prices.
With the end of quota system at sight in 2015, the cost effective but labor intensive milk production in Finland is facing challenges in the coming years.
While growers will broadly welcome any rise in price, the extra £1/t for 2014 negotiated by the NFU on behalf of the 3,500 UK beet growers is hardly transformational, says Andersons director Jay Wootton.
Bangladesh's state grains buyer said it received no bids for the import of 50,000 tonnes of wheat in an international tender that closes on Thursday amid political turmoil ahead of next month's elections.
U.S. soybean futures inched upward on Tuesday in quiet pre-Christmas dealings with a sale of U.S. soy lending some modest support while weather in South America remained a mixed bag for the soy complex.
China has rejected about 2,000 tonnes of U.S. dried distillers grains (DDGs), a corn by-product, and will impose strict checks over an unapproved genetically-modified (GMO) strain, traders said on Thursday.
The Florida Perishable Trades Coalition plans to enhance a pilot program that allows clearance of cold-treatment perishables such as blueberries and grapes from Peru and Uruguay through south Florida.
