http://www.agrimoney.com/index.php The latest UK and international news, comment and analysis on soft commodities, agriculture companies and farm investment from Agrimoney.com http://www.agrimoney.com/news/palm-oil-hits-six-week-top-closes-gap-with-soyoil--5865.html Palm oil prices gain on hopes for pre-Ramadan demand and ideas of improving fundamentals. But Chinese import cancellations constrain rival soyoil http://www.agrimoney.com/news/soybean-soymeal-prices-rise-to-eight-month-highs--5863.html Futures in the oilseed and one of its main products are lifted by concerns over a shortage of US supplies, which may send imports soaring http://www.agrimoney.com/news/us-crop-fears-retreat-for-now-to-frontier-states--5861.html The huge planting push by US growers has eased dramatically Midwest crop concerns. But fears remain alive in the far north and south of the country http://www.agrimoney.com/news/goldman-bearish-on-ags-but-not-other-commodities--5842.html The bank restates a "neutral" rating on commodities, even though they may underperform shares for now. But on ags, it foresees negative returns http://www.agrimoney.com/news/china-stokes-doubts-over-usda-soy-trade-estimates--5839.html China says its soybean imports will hit a record high in 2013-14, but one well below a US estimate which many investors have already questioned http://www.agrimoney.com/news/new-britain-cuts-palm-hedges-as-price-hopes-rise--5833.html The group cuts forward palm oil sales by nearly 70%, flagging a "relatively tight" market, which has raised hopes of prices at least stabilising http://www.agrimoney.com/news/sowing-delays-grow-as-farms-overlook-soy-for-corn--5831.html 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 http://www.agrimoney.com/news/caution-on-ideas-of-big-crops-revives-grain-prices--5829.html 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 http://www.agrimoney.com/news/argentine-farmers-soy-hoarding-trips-up-glencore--5828.html Glencore's agricultural production operations make a "slow" start to 2013, with oilseed processing volumes undermined by Argentine soybean shortages http://www.agrimoney.com/news/coffee-corn-hogs-turn-hedge-funds-upbeat-on-ags--5827.html Hedge funds rebuind their net long position in agricultural commodities, encouraged by US grain sowing delays, high meat prices and Brazilian frost http://www.agrimoney.com/news/us-to-lead-global-soybean-stocks-to-all-time-high--5825.html World soybean stocks are to hit 75m tonnes, boosted by a record US harvest - and bringing an end to a period of elevated prices in the soy complex http://www.agrimoney.com/news/double-crop-soybean-acres-may-fall-22percent---macquarie--5822.html The tardy development of winter wheat, in prompting a late harvest, may limit a follow-on soybean crop, the bank says. But there are other influences http://www.agrimoney.com/news/exit-from-peanuts-may-limit-chinas-corn-woes--5820.html 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