International

Buyers in Egypt are increasingly shifting their focus to Ukrainian corn on the possibility of lower premiums amid a growing harvest and sourcing smaller parcels to cover the months of December and January as Argentine corn stocks swell. Over the past year, Egypt has been purchasing corn from Argentina and Brazil due to their competitive […]

The world’s second largest Palm oil producing country, Malaysia is expected to increase by 15.5 percent this year and will grow by 2.5 percent in 2018, the government said on Friday. Malaysian output is forecast to rise to 20 million tonnes this year and to 20.5 million tonnes in 2018 due to better yields…” The […]

China has developed a drought-resistant rice breed and introduced its farming method nine countries, mainly in southeast Asia and Africa. According to Dr. Wang Shimei, of the Rice Research Institute of the Anhui Agricultural Academy, the plantation area of the Lyuhan No. 1 (Green Drought) rice breed had reached 2.3 million hectares in China. Wang […]

African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina has called for urgent action from stakeholders over the deepening crisis of global malnutrition. Adesina made the call as he joined key nutrition actors, private-sector representatives, policy-makers and thought leaders at the 2017 World Food Prize-Borlaug Dialogue Symposium in Des Moines, Iowa, on Wednesday, October 18, to push for […]

Senators from the Plains and Upper Midwest pressed for expansion of the long-term CRP during a friendly confirmation hearing for Bill Northey, the USDA nominee who would run the program as agriculture undersecretary. Chairman Pat Roberts said the Agriculture Committee would clear the nominations of Northey and Gregory Ibach “as expeditiously as we can” for […]

Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s promised Tuesday to improve the pay and working conditions of laborers hired by the farms that provide milk for the Vermont-based company’s quirky flavors while promising to pay the farmers who employ the workers more. The “Milk with Dignity” agreement was signed by Ben & Jerry’s CEO Jostein Solheim […]

As harvest picks up steam, so could the potential for price movement, as the market factors in changing expectations for this year’s production. Soybean prices have been on the rebound lately due to good demand, and expectations for dry regions of the Midwest are to potentially yield less than expected. On the other hand, if […]

The wear and tear is evident, but the road has since been reduced to a bushy footpath laden with black jack and a combination of thorny grasses. Had it not been for the gate and buildings in the distance, it would have been difficult to imagine that this road leads up to the Shs2.8 billion […]

The Republican-led Senate Finance Committee on Thursday set an Oct. 5 confirmation hearing for Gregory Doud, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the top agricultural negotiator job at the U.S. Trade Representative. If approved by the panel and confirmed by the full Senate, Doud would become Chief Agricultural Negotiator for the agency – a position that […]

China soybean oil futures fell over 2 percent on Thursday, reaching their lowest level in three months, following a drop in global prices and amid ongoing pressure from large stocks. * The most active soybean oil contract on the Dalian Commodity Exchange fell as much as 2.4 percent to 6,026 yuan ($906.30)per tonne, its lowest […]