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Rejigged US feed grain estimates branded 'a joke' 12 Oct 2011
US farm officials come under fire after slashing their wheat feeding estimate, and not raising corn's, at a time of resilient animal numbers |
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Was Canadian wheat behind robust US corn stocks? 10 Oct 2011
A theory that US livestock farmers are dropping corn for Canadian wheat may explain stocks data which sent grain futures plunging. However... |
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Bumper beet crop sees Rusagro double sugar output 7 Oct 2011
Rusagro reveals a jump in sugar output, driven by Russia's record beet harvest, which has returned the country to sugar exports |
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Market split over Yasi-hit Australian sugar output 6 Oct 2011
Estimates over Australia's sugar output remain unusually divided even as the 2011-12 cane harvest approaches its close |
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China's pork imports to rise even further in 2012 6 Oct 2011
China's efforts to boost its own output of a meat viewed as "important for social stability" are snagging on high feed costs and land shorta |
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Ageing growers leave Nigeria with cocoa headache 5 Oct 2011
Most cocoa growers are over 60 in Nigeria - where life expectancy is 48 - leaving them reluctant to take a longer-term view and replant trees |
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ICAC warns over drought-hit US cotton 4 Oct 2011
"Even irrigated fields are being abandoned" in top producing state Texas, cotton experts say, estimating the US crop below Washington's own hopes |
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China on course for record corn imports 4 Oct 2011
The US Grains Council says China's corn harvest will come in well short of official forecasts, creating a need for imports of up to 10m tonnes |
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US strengthens La Nina warning, stoking crop fears 4 Oct 2011
Official US meteorologists now say the pattern will "strengthen and continue" well into 2012, amid growing fears for the impact on Argentina |
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Cotton supplies may be less tight than USDA shows 3 Oct 2011
US attaches in significant cotton trading countries report lower imports, and higher exports, than shown in official data |
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Goldman cuts crop price hopes, amid data puzzle 3 Oct 2011
Strong US stocks data - which may not be down to a demand dive after all - prompt Goldman Sachs to cut forecasts for corn, soybean and wheat futures |
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US finds extra corn, sending prices to 2011 low 30 Sep 2011
Corn prices plunge limit down, dragging wheat down too, after the US identifies an extra 200m bushels of the grain in data deemed "ragingly bearish" |
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