Donald Trump’s trade war with China is hitting American farmers the hardest, forcing them to take losses for soybeans and corn — just as the White House has granted exemptions to some oil refineries to avoid complying with biofuels’ rules. Indeed, soybeans and corn are used to make biodiesel and ethanol that are blended with […]
Saudi Grains Organization (SAGO) has completed procedures for tenders to import 1,500,000 tons of fodder barley from EU countries, Australia, North and South America (excluding Canada) and the Black Sea. Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz Al-Faris, governor of the organization, said on Monday that 11 international companies have been awarded the contract for supplying through 17 […]
THE PRICE and pace of Russian wheat exports combined with the further uncertainty regarding export restrictions continued to be the dominant influence on global wheat futures markets over the past week. The market opened sharply down last Tuesday following the long weekend in the US. This was followed by two more negative days and a […]
Some farmers are now looking for biogas technology to turn animals and other waste into power plants. Informs DANIEL ESSIET. The hope for biogas generation is high among farmers and innovators, as it potentially solves two problems of utilization of livestock wastes and provision of energy to compensate for the increase in the cost of […]
A rough winter for grain growers on the east coast has led the Australian government commodity forecaster, ABARES, to predict a 12 per cent drop in winter grain production from last year’s total. Released this morning, the latest crop report is tipping winter production — including wheat, barley, canola, pulses and oats, among others — […]
Western Australia, the country’s biggest wheat exporting state, is poised for near-record harvests of the crop this year after rains in the region in August, even as the eastern grain belt grapples with its second Wheat yields in the state, a key supplier to the world’s biggest importer Indonesia, are expected to be better than […]
Nigeria's hope exceeded earnings of $ 402 million. The United States from the export of cashews this year is under threat, said the president of the country, the Federation of Agricultural Commodity Association of Nigeria, Dr. Victor Iyama. Iyama said that this was due to a sharp drop in world prices and reduced demand for […]
Plans for a deal under which Russia and Kazakhstan are to supply wheat to Iran have stalled as “no progress” has been made in its financing, the secretary general of the Iran Federation of Food Industry Associations said. Talks on the deal began six months ago. It would see Russia and Kazakhstan supplying wheat to […]
Women-small farmers and other stakeholders urged the FCT Administration to include them and youth farmers in the preparation and implementation of the agricultural budget in the territory.The President of the Nigerian Small Farmers Association (SWOFON), Ms. Mary Afan, yesterday called Abuja at the "Consultative Stakeholder Meeting on the Agricultural Budget FCT 2019", organized by SWOFON […]
The Czech Republic’s grain harvest was seen at 6.62 million tonnes in August, a touch higher than previous outlook released in July, data from the Czech Statistics Bureau (CSU) showed on Monday. The forecast still points to a drop compared to last year, when the grain harvest totalled 6.86 million tones. The following forecasts are […]
The Nigerian rice family association in the state of Cano says that the recent flood has destroyed more than 5,000 hectares of rice farm in some local government areas of the state. The Rice Farmers Association of Nigeria in the state of Cano says that the recent flood has destroyed more than 5,000 hectares of […]
Statistics Canada is forecasting 21.6 million tonnes of Canadian spring wheat, down three percent from last year. One of Canada’s largest wheat customers will likely increase its purchases in 2018-19, says an analyst. China was Canada’s sixth largest wheat customer through the first 11 months of the 2017-18 crop year, buying nearly one million tonnes […]
Australia and Indonesia concluded negotiations for the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement or IA-CEPA on Friday, which will allow Australian farmers to export 500,000 mt/year of tariff-free feed grains to Indonesia. Under the new agreement, Australia will gain access to the Indonesian feed grain market, with the ability to export duty-free feed barley, feed wheat […]
Just like commercial poultry breeding, dog breeding has been viewed by experts as a sustainable business with the possibility of creating jobs for the unemployed. According to some veterinarians, the breeding of dogs is becoming increasingly useful because of the escalation of uncertainty in the country and the need to provide homes and offices with […]
The Green Sahara Farm has begun training more than 18,000 small female farmers across the country to take advantage of more than 60 billion dollars of business opportunities in the Nigerian agricultural sector. Suleiman Diqua, CEO of the Green Sahara Revolution, disclosed this at the annual general meeting (AGM) recently in Abuja. Dikva explained that […]