07/08/2009 07:42AM
1. What is the G8? The G8’s membership comprises the main industrialised countries. It is not an international organisation, nor does it have an administrative staff with a permanent secretariat; it is rather a process that culminates in an annual Summit at which the Heads of State and Government of
06/09/2009 08:13AM
Corn
Trends
Short Term: Up
Long Term: Up
Overnight Trade: N +4
Opening Calls: 4-6 Higher
Yesterday, corrective action in the Dollar Index lead to corrective action in the corn. Overnight the Dollar was weaker, therefore the corn was stronger. What it all amounts to for the corn is pre-report
05/15/2009 07:50AM
Ghent in Belgium is making every Thursday a no-meat day. Well, vegetarian dishes can be delicious but, please, spare me the sermon
A friend texts me on the morning of the dinner party to remind me that his wife is vegetarian. I groan. Will she eat fish? No, he says, but she’ll have whatever is on the
04/22/2009 07:39AM
THEY failed more than 60 years ago but Nazis yesterday finally invaded the fields of England, or at least their animal creation have.
A breed of giant cattle created by the Nazis at the orders of Adolf Hitler can be seen in Britain for the first time after a farmer imported the huge creatures to graze
03/11/2009 09:28AM
US Hog Prices Gain While Pork Flounders, Create Unusual Gap
KANSAS CITY (Dow Jones)--A steep rise in cash hog prices and floundering wholesale pork values have resulted in deeply negative fresh pork processing margins. Last week alone, the Midwest direct hog markets gained from $6.75 to nearly $8.00
03/09/2009 10:02AM
Market Offers Positive Cattle Feeding Window
KANSAS CITY (Dow Jones)--A window of time allowing cattle feeders to lock in a profit on fed cattle is open, and some see recurring profit opportunities through the summer. For the last week or so, the spread between cash feeder cattle prices and a Chicago
02/27/2009 08:44AM
PARIS (Dow Jones)--Agricultural prices in France rose 4.2% in January pulled by strong domestic demand for cereals and buoyant exports to North Africa, state statistics agency Insee said Friday.
On the year, however, overall agricultural prices tumbled 11.6%, the data show.
France is one of Europe
02/19/2009 04:21PM
BRUSSELS (AFP)--The European Commission on Thursday proposed extra funding for France and Italy in a controversial multi-billion-euro energy project package, which Germany slammed as "a jumble of national wish lists."
The new plans would reduce funding for projects in Britain and Germany.
The Commission
02/19/2009 07:38AM
TOKYO (AFP)--Japan and Switzerland signed a free trade deal Thursday to bolster economic ties and counter what officials said were growing protectionist tendencies around the world amid the global downturn.
Japan's Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone and Swiss Vice President Doris Leuthard formally