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Mosaic cuts potash plans, warning of buyer caution

The fertilizer giant, which has already curbed phosphate output because of the market downturn, joins peers in cutting potash production too

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Meat market squeeze halves Tyson Foods profits
An oversupply of chicken on the US market, and record cattle prices, shrink Tyson's profits - but not by as much as Wall Street had feared
 Dairy Crest rebuffs talk of cut to milk payouts
Dairy Crest denies it will follow Muller in reducing milk payouts to farmers, despite the historical link with the tumbling bulk cream market
Two-tier pork processing sector poised for deals
Mergers such as those between France's Porc Amour and Cofiporc, and Belgium's Westvlees and Detry, look a taste of things to come, Rabobank says
REA seeks Jakarta listing to lift investor profile
The plantations group is "actively pursuing" plans to float a subsidiary in Jakarta to curry favour with investors and Indonesian authorities
Yara heralds new start at troubled fertilizer site
The nitrogen giant, after wrangling and writedowns, takes control of the Australian Burrup assets in a deal valuing them at nearly $900m
CNH shares tumble on idea of slower tractor market
Investors wipe more than $1bn from the stockmarket value of the maker of Case tractors, after it forecasts a sharp drop in industry growth
ADM profits tumble in 'tough quarter'
Archer Daniels Midland reveals its worst second-quarter earnings since the 1990s, hurt by a "poor" performance in world crop trading
Credit Suisse slashes fertilizer price forecasts
Ideas on nitrogen and phosphate prices take particular pastings as the bank warns of excess supplies, and downgrades shares in sector giant Yara
Olam fuels trading house rivalry with Russia deal
The Singapore-based group unveils $400m plans to become a force in Russian dairy and grain farming, boosting competition with the likes of Cargill
Cranswick gains as pork replaces Christmas turkey
Cranswick shares hit their highest since June after consumers extend a switch to pork - not just from beef, but turkey too
Costs cuts and mergers vital for UK poultry groups
Europe's top broiler meat industry has an overblown idea of its own competitiveness, and is "not well-known" for efficiency, Rabobank warns
India poised for $8bn boost to fertilizer capacity
India is expected to "kick start" an investment drive which could return the country to self-sufficiency in urea - gas supplies allowing
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