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Demand expectations send wheat to fresh highs 26 Jan 2011
Prices hit their highest since 2008 in Chicago and Paris, and set a record in London, boosted by talk over rising North African imports |
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Price controls 'not the answer' to food inflation 26 Jan 2011
The UN warns against price caps, investing in futures and export bans to curb food inflation, which Nestle's head says may be long lasting |
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Farming avoids UK's surprise economic downturn 25 Jan 2011
UK farming shows - rare - expansion while most of the economy suffers, as cold weather stops building projects and cuts hotel patronage |
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Wheat 'worst bet among grains'. Or is it? 25 Jan 2011
Analysts divide over prospects for grain futures, with Goldman Sachs favouring corn - which ANZ says "looks exhausted". SocGen choses wheat |
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Goldman lifts commodity hopes - notably for crops 25 Jan 2011
The investment bank edges higher its estimate for returns on commodities this year, with prospects for crops particularly improved |
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Demand up for Australia wheat despite quality drop 25 Jan 2011
Australia is enjoying an export uplift from the "frenzied" activity in grain markets, AWB says, as data confirm a jump in levels of feed wheat |
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'Massively bullish' US wheat exports may set trend 21 Jan 2011
A jump in US wheat exports to their best January figure in six years comes ahead of an expected pick-up in shipments to North Africa |
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World faces further year of hefty wheat deficit 21 Jan 2011
The "most intense battle for acres in history", involving soft commodities as well as grains, will curtail a rise in wheat seedings, CBA says |
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Corn price 'to surpass record', says Macquarie 20 Jan 2011
The bank, hiking price forecasts for a range of crops, says corn futures will be driven well above $7.50 a bushel, with soybeans topping $16 |
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Firm prices prompt IGC to lift wheat sowings guess 20 Jan 2011
The influential group upgrades to 3% its estimate for the rise in wheat area for 2011-12 as it trims - again - its corn harvest estimate |
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Sowing setbacks lower hopes for EU wheat harvest 20 Jan 2011
Strategie Grains cuts 900,000 tonnes from its estimate for EU wheat output in a report which foresees prices staying firm |
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Fast thaw leaves 25% of UK beet at risk, warns ABF 20 Jan 2011
Associated British Foods says a setback to sugar output will "moderate" its profits growth, flagging delays to a wheat ethanol plant too |
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