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Strong South America sowings lift Monsanto profits 7 Dec 2011
Monsanto raises earnings guidance for its newly-finished quarter, giving good news for agribusiness investors tested by Cargill job cuts |
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Brazil's important ethanol market to 'stay tight' 7 Dec 2011
Brazil's cane output will not revive far enough to ease an ethanol squeeze, with implications for world sugar prices and US biofuels groups |
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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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Yara shares fly as China, Algeria lift price hopes 6 Dec 2011
The fertilizer giant's shares rise 10% after it forecasts a jump in output, and market prices helped by Algerian setbacks and Chinese coal costs |
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Politics, rising farm costs to keep ag prices high 2 Dec 2011
Rabobank says agricultural commodity prices will prove lower in 2012 than 2011, but rules out a collapse. Soymeal is the top bet, and coffee the worst |
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K+S lifts output, and cost, ideas on Canadian mine 29 Nov 2011
The German group says its Canadian potash site bought will produce more of the fertilizer than had been thought. But costs will be higher too |
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India wins fertilizer price cuts as rupee tumbles 24 Nov 2011
India wins phosphate discounts, and seeks cuts in potash too, citing damange from a weak rupee, although some believe other forces may be at work |
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Chaoda cuts Asian Citrus stake, to market's relief 24 Nov 2011
Often a selldown by a major shareholder sends other investors running scared. But not when the seller is surrounded by fraud claims |
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Record costs put farm margins back under pressure 23 Nov 2011
UK data showing a "dramatic" jump in fuel bills and a jump of one-half in nitrogen costs highlights the return of contracting farm margins |
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UK rapeseed sowings up, but by how much? 21 Nov 2011
Origin Enterprises, the owner of Masstock, says they may have risen more slowly than recent research showed, to the benefit of wheat area |
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Stand-off in EU fertilizer buying to 'end soon' 21 Nov 2011
ICL acknowledges that fears of a rerun of 2008 have made growers "wary of commitment" in buying nutrients, but says this reluctance is temporary |
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EU's top wheat ethanol plant 'to reopen next year' 16 Nov 2011
Wheat officials in the UK pencil in a restart date for the mothballed Ensus site in about four months' time |
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