US farmers plant corn at fastest pace on record
US growers sow an area the size of Florida with corn in one week, nearly catching up with the average pace of seedings after a record-slow start
US farmers 'to break corn planting record'
Drier weather is allowing US growers to catch up on corn sowings, with market talk now of an area twice the size of Austria seeded in one week
US corn plantings to disappoint, ag giants say
Deere & Co, the tractor giant, and fertilizer group Mosaic estimate that US corn sowings will fall below official forecasts, thanks to rain delays
Sowing delays grow, as farms overlook soy for corn
US corn sowings accelerated, but partly at the expense of soybean progress. Farmers are behind on plantings overall by an area nearly a big as the UK
Caution on ideas of big crops revives grain prices
Corn prices rebound, as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and others warn over threats to forecasts for a huge US crop, with Russia doubts boosting wheat
Coffee, corn, hogs turn hedge funds upbeat on ags
Hedge funds rebuind their net long position in agricultural commodities, encouraged by US grain sowing delays, high meat prices and Brazilian frost
Exit from peanuts may limit China's corn woes
Cold weather and high soybean prices are threatening China's corn plantings. But a switch from peanuts may free up some extra area for the grain