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Vietnam learns to drink coffee, as well as grow it 16 Dec 2010
Vietnamese, the world's second-ranked coffee growers, have hitherto hardly consumed the bean themselves. But that appears to be changing |
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Feed costs to stay 'very high', says Cal-Maine 25 Jul 2011
The egg producer highlights the problems facing the US poultry industry as it unveils a slide in profits thanks to a jump in feed prices |
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Opinion: wheat's best hope may lie in inflation 11 Jun 2009
Wheat's vital statistics may not justify even its current market values. What the grain needs to go much higher is help from broader price rises |
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Corn slumps 8% on surprise rise in plantings 30 Jun 2009
Corn goes limit down after an official report pegs sowings 2m acres higher than previously thought. Soybeans and wheat recover from a weak start |
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Canada's wheat hopes crumble, as Russia's improve 12 Jul 2011
Chicago wheat soars after the USDA says improved Russia's export prospects will more than offset by weaker expectations for Ukraine and Canada |
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Key report hinges on east vs west corn equation 8 Nov 2011
The US corn yield estimate will be the focus of much-watched data due on Wednesday. The figure will depend on reconciling divergent harvest results |
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Drought imperils hopes of end to US cattle decline 14 Apr 2011
Signs that farmers will begin to rebuild cattle herds, after a decline since the 1970s, are being threatened by dryness, the USDA says |
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Taste for pork to save Argentina from beef imports 8 Oct 2009
Argentina, a nation built on beef, will not face the ignominy of relying on foreign supplies next year, US officials say |
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US to cut corn plantings guess by up to 2m acres 12 Aug 2009
The US Department of Agriculture may later on Wednesday slash an area nearly as big as Puerto Rico from its sowing estimate, traders believe |
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EU beet sowings to rise despite rising inventories 8 May 2012
Processors, forecasting that European officials may make further concessions to sugar trading rules, are encouraging farmers to keep sowings high |
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Ukraine may extend contentious grain export levies 14 Sep 2011
The duties, blamed for a slump in Ukraine grain exports, may be extended to July - and to soybeans and sunflower oil |
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Meat price prospects boosted by US data cocktail 23 Jan 2012
Data showing a 6% slip in cattle placements on feedlots support ideas of more expensive meat. But so does a 22% slump in chicken inventories |
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