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Yara tightens grip on US with $4bn Terra purchase 15 Feb 2010
The Norwegian nitrogen giant is to undertake a $2.0bn-2.5bn rights issue to help pay for a deal aimed at making it a "truly global leader" |
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Investors 'purging' commodity holdings 17 Sep 2008
Fund managers, who are becoming more fearful of recession than inflation, are dumping commodities in favour of food stocks, a survey says |
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Double boost from cold winter lifts Carr's shares 19 Jul 2010
The group reports fillips to both feed and fertilizer sales from the severe UK winter, leaving it on track for a jump in full-year profits |
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CF changes tack 11 months into Terra siege 16 Dec 2009
The fertilizer group says is to "consider alternatives" to cracking the $3.7bn deal, after Terra rejects its latest bid sweetener |
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Carr's warns on profits for both 2010 and 2011 18 Sep 2009
The flour-to-feeds group, citing "challenging conditions" in UK fertilizer and US feed, says a profits rebound will be weaker than it had hoped |
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Talk of 'appreciably higher' profits lifts Carr's 12 Apr 2010
Shares in the group rise 5% to their highest since November 2008 after it notes a boost from a revival in the fertilizer market |
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Farmers may shift to Australia's wild north west 19 Oct 2009
Farmers in parts of Australia struck by drought are taking a "renewed interest" in a better-watered, but remote, region, US officials say
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Dairy summit must give farmers 'clear message' 30 Sep 2009
Europe's protesting milk farmers want a "clear political signal" over dairy reforms, France says, after Brussels downplays an emergency summit |
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Opinion: the silver lining to CF's lofty Terra bid 3 Mar 2010
What's needed to reveal it is for the offer to fail. Then CF might be able to use its generosity to its own advantage. By Mike Verdin |
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Broker upgrade fuels rally in Syngenta stock 8 Oct 2009
Shares in the Swiss agrochemicals group take their gains this week to 11% as JP Morgan joins Credit Suisse and UBS in recommending the stock |
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Grains rally yet to restore herbicide markets 11 Aug 2010
Makhteshim Agan says farm sprays companies remain in a "challenging environment", despite the growing optimism in their fertilizer peers |
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Cargill flags economy threat as profits slide 18 Aug 2009
The US agribusiness giant, unveiling its first drop in annual earnings for eight years, warns of an "uneven" path to global economic recovery |
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