The U.S. Department of Agriculture in its Aug. 12 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates forecast the carryover of U.S. wheat on June 1, 2014, at 551 million bus, down 25 million bus.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture in its Aug. 12 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates projected U.S. sugar carryover on Oct. 1, 2014, at 2,025,000 short tons, raw value, up 12,000 tons.
Indian inflation likely picked up slightly in July as its falling currency pushed up the price of imports, making raw materials more costly, and on rising food prices.
Rabobank has published a new report identifying structural changes that are emerging in the Mexican corn market, resulting from constraints in the growth of corn production.
Chinese consumers are responding to a powerful new marketing tactic that plays to a widespread fear of food contamination - the promise of safe groceries sold online.
FAO Food Price Index fell for the third straight month in July to 205.9 points, dropping 2 percent below its revised value of for June and 3.3 percent lower than July 2012.
China's recent move to allow imports of genetically modified Argentine corn could be a sign that the country is ready to buy more GMO food products from the global market.
Japan's Ministry of Agriculture bought a total of 175,277 tonnes of food wheat from the United States, Canada and Australia in a weekly tender that closed on Thursday.
Global food prices fell nearly 2 percent in July compared to the previous month, driven mainly by lower prices for grains, soy and palm oil, the United Nations' food agency said on Thursday.
The value of exports of Norwegian salmon went up 48 percent compared to July 2012, despite volumes dropping by 7 percent, according to the Norwegian Seafood Council.
In the August 1st Illinois Production Cost Report, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported an average Illinois price for anhydrous ammonia of $793 per ton, a diammonium phosphate (DAP) price of $558 per ton, and a potash price of $541 per ton.
The final production estimates are not yet available, however, preliminary forecast puts the 2013 wheat production at 14.5 million tonnes, exceeding by some five per cent the already above average harvest in 2012.
US beef and pork exports made gains in volume and value in June, while lamb exports steadily increased, according to statistics compiled by the US Meat Export Federation (USMEF).
The World Trade Organization (WTO) struck down China’s anti-dumping and countervailing duty measures on broiler chickens from the United States on Aug. 2.
