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Raised Monsanto guidance fails to stop share slide 2 Oct 2008
The biotechnology group's seventh raise in its profits forecast this year fails to stop its shares succumbing to fears for the farming boom |
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Glencore seals Can$6bn Viterra takeover 20 Mar 2012
Glencore, best known in oil and mining, flags its ambitions in farm commodities as it buys the grain group, in a deal involving Agrium and Richardson |
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Sketch: tales of the land rush 1 Jul 2009
Forget futures. Forget stocks. Investors at the World Agri Invest Congress appear focused on land. But where to buy? Mike Verdin reports |
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Cash call puts skids under Plant Impact shares 25 Feb 2010
Shares in the alternative chemicals group slump 26% after it unveils its second equity issue in a year to raise money for product development |
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PotashCorp revival target disappoints investors 28 Jan 2010
The fertilizer group, reporting a 71% slide in earnings, predicts a sharp rebound this year, but not one as quick as Wall Street had hoped for |
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CF buys 7% of Terra in countdown to showdown 28 Sep 2009
The US fertilizer group reveals it has spent $247m over the past two weeks on Terra shares, as it prepares for a key meeting |
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Europe potash sales curbed as credit fears spread 7 Dec 2011
Uralkali flags concerns of Europe's debt crisis prompting a squeeze on farm loans, meaning a softer potash market than in the likes of China |
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Debt and ageing combines limit Russia grain hopes 8 Apr 2012
Russia's grains harvest this year, and subsequent exports, could come in well below levels commentators believe, US farm officials say |
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Ukraine slashes grain forecast by 5m tonnes 3 Jun 2009
The country's agriculture minister has blamed late frosts for a cut to 42-43m tonnes in his estimate for this year's crop, a report says |
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Potash prices hold their ground as stocks fall 16 Oct 2009
Potash inventories held by North American producers have put in their longest falling run for three years, but remain well above average |
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Sagging feed and grain hurt Lantmannen 30 Apr 2009
The Nordic agribusiness unveils a menu of cost saving measures after lower sales of farm supplies and machinery leave it in the red |
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US leads world rise in wheat sowings for 2012 8 Dec 2011
World wheat area is likely to rise - and especially in the US, ironically because of the drought which prompted huge losses of this year's crop |
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