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News in-depthAgricultural commodities
Investors plough record amounts into US farmland
...Some farmers’ organisations nonetheless see the land grab by investment funds as a threat to rural communities. The average age of an American farmer is 58, according to the USDA....
February 20, 2024
Agricultural production
Amazon destruction woes overshadow Brazil’s farming advances
...Much rural land is not properly registered, complicating enforcement....
November 8, 2022
FT Live
Commodities Asia Summit
Enabling decarbonisation in a time of disrupted trade flows
Wednesday, 6 NovemberSingapore
Globalisation44 min
Reinventing farming and food post-globalisation | FT Film
...So now, the public is struggling to find who represents us out here in rural America....
October 6, 2022
LexRetail sector
Tractor Supply/hobby farms: field of dreams Premium content
...Selling to rural communities does pose some unique challenges....
March 1, 2020
US-China trade dispute
Doubts raised over US claim of $40bn China farm purchases
...If realised, the pledge could prop up rural economies suffering from a glut of grain....
December 14, 2019
Agricultural commodities
African swine fever sparks global meat shortage fears
...Some analysts expect pork shortfalls in China to be far greater than the USDA’s estimates....
October 31, 2019
FT Live
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News in-depthUS-China trade dispute
Small group of America’s big farms gets bulk of Trump bailout funds
...of the USDA....
May 19, 2019
News in-depthAgriculture
US farmers’ borrowing boom is built on shaky land values
...The number of borrowers from the Farm Service Agency, an arm of the USDA, has grown about a quarter over the past five years....
June 4, 2019
News in-depthThe Big Read
Why US farmers are falling out of love with Donald Trump
...“The rules have changed, and now rural America is losing,” testified Brian Duncan, a farmer from north-west Illinois....
November 21, 2019
Food security
Heavy rainfall damps prospects for Midwestern farms
...The scientific consensus on climate faces scepticism in much of the rural Midwest....
June 7, 2019
Honduras
Honduran farmers flee effects of climate change
...While the average price was $140 per bag (60kg) in the 2016-17 season, according to the USDA, Mr Isaula said it had dropped to $118 per quintal (100kg) earlier this month and then to $104....
December 13, 2018
US trade
US cuts forecast for soyabean exports to China
...Soyabeans are the US’s largest agricultural export to China and are grown in rural states that mainly voted for Mr Trump....
July 13, 2018
Health
FT Health: Drug resistance, pandemics and the vaccination gap
...(USDA, Devex) Radiation row The mobile phone industry has been accused of casting doubt on scientific studies that suggest a link between cell phone use and cancer....
July 20, 2018
News in-depthThe Big Read
Why soyabeans are the crop of the century
...The soyabean has driven deep into Brazil’s interior savannah, Argentina’s pampas and the US rural heartlands....
June 20, 2017
Life & Arts
A cabin escape in New Hampshire
...$65 per night; fs.usda.gov Shooting Star cabins, Wyoming For something far more luxurious, Shooting Star is a collection of cabins set beside a golf course in Jackson Hole....
September 18, 2015
FT Live
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Wednesday, 4 DecemberDigital Conference
Commodities
Grain prices slide to cut US farm incomes
...But farming constitutes a much larger share of rural economies....
August 26, 2014
Commodities
‘Crop tourists’ predict record corn and soyabean harvests
...Every August, travellers with a high tolerance for monotony flock to the two-lane highways of the rural US Midwest....
August 28, 2014
Global Economy
Population of rural America continues to fall
...,” the USDA said....
April 9, 2014
Commodities
US set for soyabean planting spree
...“Expected returns for corn are anticipated to be lower in 2014 compared with recent years,” the USDA said....
March 31, 2014
Global Economy
Rural US shrinks as young flee for the cities
...John Cromartie, a geographer with the USDA’s Resource and Rural Economics Division, said that the exodus of younger rural residents had left many rural areas with a population that is “ageing in place”....
June 4, 2013
Food Prices
China sees rising appetite for corn imports
...China’s corn imports are projected to more than double from 3m tonnes in the 2012-13 crop year to 7m tonnes in 2013-14, according to the USDA....
September 11, 2013
Commodities
Heatwave fans US corn prices
...In its latest forecast, the USDA expected the average US corn field to yield a record 166 bushels an acre....
June 27, 2012
Commodities
Obama urges Congress to pass farm bill
...So if you happen to see Congressman Ryan, tell him how important this farm bill is to Iowa and our rural communities”....
August 13, 2012
Commodities
Obama backs aid for drought farmers
...The Obama administration has called on Congress to offer assistance to farmers stricken by the worst drought to hit the US in 24 years as the damage to rural economies rises up the political agenda....
July 18, 2012
US downturn
US farm subsidies attacked amid boom
...Official outlooks for these crops will dominate a two-day USDA conference in Washington this week....
February 22, 2012

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