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...Comparatively, CBH estimates that Western Australia grain growers are paying approximately 2.6 to 5 times what growers in eastern Australia pay for track access . . ....
...The US, the world’s top corn and soyabean grower, has become an importer of organic corn and soyabeans. In the organic food trade, smaller companies are absorbing some of this growth....
...“The issue is not yet resolved,” said Nathan Fields, director of biotechnology at the US National Corn Growers Association. “It’s a step, but it’s by no means a solution.”...
...ADM, along with Cargill, changed the nature of cocoa trading and processing in the 1990s when they bought their knowledge of grain trading into the sector....
...That frustrates growers and traders in the US, Brazil and Argentina, who hesitate to plant strains they cannot ship to the world’s biggest buyer of grains....
...“During this time Agrisure Viptera has demonstrated major benefits for growers, preventing significant yield and grain quality losses resulting from damage by a broad spectrum of lepidopteran pests,” it...
...Corn prices jumped after the world’s biggest grower reported slightly less supply than expected....
...Cotton had a 27.5 per cent share of the global fibre market last year, from a historical norm of about 40 per cent, according to Cotton Inc, a US industry body....
...The US sugar industry unites an alliance of growers from the far south and north of the country....
...Cathy Wedmore, grain merchandiser at the Floyd Valley Grain co-operative in Hinton, Iowa, says most growers stopped selling corn after grain prices fell this spring and are waiting for cash prices to rebound...
...The president of Grain Growers of Canada, a lobby group, Vandervalk estimates only about 10 per cent of his peers buy options, although the number is rising, he says....
...Over in India, the world’s second-largest grower, rice output is expected to climb to a record as early arrival of monsoon rains over the biggest growing regions spur planting, potentially boosting exports...
...Almost 90 per cent of its grain storage capacity is in North America....
...Jens Bruno, a business controller for Grain Alliance, a private corn, sunflower and soy grower backed by US and Swedish investments, says those who take a long-term strategy with a strict focus on productivity...
...Grain traders have successfully navigated the upheaval in commodities caused by the release for the first time in memory of sensitive monthly crop reports during dealing in US futures markets....
...Lambert, a Forbes magazine journalist, introduces us to Vincent Kosuga, a 5ft 4in onion grower who drove stock cars, carried around a .38 revolver and a billy club, and gave so generously to the Catholic...
...Heilongjiang Agriculture, a rice grower, lost 1.4 per cent to Rmb14.99 on concerns of lower grain prices after state television cited Mr Wen as saying the country will spend Rmb12.9bn to boost grain production...
...The US is the world’s largest corn grower and its exports make up the majority of global trade in the grain....
...Prices for European milling wheat soared 70 per cent between June and a peak of €236 a tonne in late August in the wake of Moscow’s decision to impose a ban on grain exports....
...As farm subsidies, particularly in Europe, were reformed and governments cut intervention, the grain mountains shrank....
...Corn offered gross returns of $750 an acre compared with $420 for soyabeans, said Brad Bowman, a Nebraska corn grower, on a call organised by Citigroup....
...The higher corn price has encouraged more US farmers to plant the grain with Informa, the forecasters, predicting a 9 per cent rise in acreage to 85.6m this year....
...We need to move the cropping pattern in India from food grains to crops, which are of high value. India is well-positioned today to feed the world....
...The International Grains Council said world coarse grain output was expected to jump to record levels this season as growers in Europe and the United States harvest big crops of maize....
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