09/15/2008 09:37PM
LINCOLN, Neb. — This year is shaping up as a "bin-busting" year for Nebraska crop producers, as surging revenues are likely to result in a $1.5 billion increase in that sector's net farm income, said a University of Nebraska-Lincoln agricultural economist.
Bruce Johnson predicts 2008 will be the most
04/10/2008 06:34PM
The soybean harvest has been significantly delayed for the past two weeks due to the agricultural sector strike against the GoA’s March 11 implementation of floating export taxes.Logistical problems, as well as pressure from protesting farmers, dissuaded many producers from harvesting soybeans.However
04/08/2008 07:04AM
BUENOS AIRES (Dow Jones)--Argentina's embattled economy minister, Martin Lousteau, is ready to offer concessions to protesting farmers in talks this week, but people close to him insist he has no plans to reverse the soy tax increase that prompted a destructive three-week strike last month.
Lousteau
03/12/2008 06:19AM
Corn is the predominant feed grain in Japan, accounting for about 80% of domestic feed grain consumption (including of barley, corn, oats, rye, sorghum and wheat). Japan does not produce corn and is the world largest importer of corn. For 2007-2008, corn imports are forecast at 16.3 Mt, down marginally
01/10/2008 04:29PM
Highlights: While the first harvest of early variety soybeans was taking place last week in the Center-west, planting officially drew to a close in Brazil’s south. Despite record soybean prices, Post revised its numbers down 1 MMT to respond to a shift in soy area to both corn and sugarcane; production
12/30/2007 09:26AM
BEIJING (AP)--China will levy taxes next year on exports of basic food products such as wheat and soybeans, the Ministry of Finance said Sunday. The tax is an apparent effort to slow a surge in food prices by encouraging producers to sell more at home. It will also apply to corn, rice, and other basic
07/31/2007 06:18AM
ST. LOUIS, July 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- One of the most anticipated soybean product introductions is now one step closer to farmers' fields.Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON) announced today that its next-generation soybean technology, Roundup RReady2Yield™ soybeans, has completed the regulatory process
07/28/2007 05:57PM
Soybean rust was reported in five new counties (Bowie, Delta, Lamar, Navarro, and Red River Counties) in commercial soybean fields in Texas. Some of these reports are from multiple fields within a county.
Two counties in Oklahoma (Bryan and Choctaw) were confirmed to have soybean rust on July 26th
07/14/2007 09:45AM
The USDA’s Acreage report in June showed that 64.1 million acres were sown to soybeans in 2007. With an unchanged yield outlook, the lower acreage for soybeans reduced the 2007 production forecast by 120 million bushels to 2.625 billion. The tighter outlook for the 2007/08 supply raised the forecast