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By Marley DelDuchetto, Bloomberg |
June 18, 2013
Raw-sugar futures posted the biggest drop in almost four weeks on continued global glut.
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By Marvin G. Perez and Alan Bjerga, Bloomberg |
June 17, 2013
The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to spend about $38 million to buy domestic sugar in a bid to ease a glut that sent prices plunging this month to a four- year low.
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By Alan Bjerga, Bloomberg |
June 17, 2013
Tucked deep in the 1,198-page U.S. House agriculture policy legislation is an initiative to guarantee prices for sushi rice. So too is insurance for alfalfa and a marketing plan for Christmas trees.
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By Jeff Wilson and Tony C. Dreibus, Bloomberg |
June 12, 2013
Corn futures tumbled the most in five weeks, leading declines in wheat and soybeans, after the U.S. said inventories will be bigger than analysts’ forecast as global production rebounds from a drought last year.
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By Tony C. Dreibus |
June 11, 2013
Indonesia is the world’s largest producer of tin and palm oil and the third-biggest coffee grower.
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By Jeff Wilson, Bloomberg |
June 11, 2013
U.S. soybean farmers are planting a record crop that’s poised to double domestic reserves and expand a global surplus after last year’s drought drove prices to an all-time high.
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By Mark Drajem and Jack Kaskey, Bloomberg |
June 6, 2013
Several plant scientists questioned conclusions Monsanto Co. drew from its investigation of an escaped gene-altered wheat variety and said there is still a risk that rogue grain is in the seed supply.
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By Joe Richter, Elizabeth Campbell and Debarati Roy, Bloomberg |
June 6, 2013
Commodities are trailing equities for the longest stretch in almost 15 years as Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. predict the end of the decade-long bull market even as the global economy expands.
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By Jack Kaskey, Bloomberg |
June 5, 2013
Monsanto Co., the world’s largest seed company, said experimental wheat engineered to survive Roundup weedkiller may have gotten into an Oregon field through an “accidental or purposeful” act.
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By Daniel P. Collins |
May 24, 2013
Although droughts are seasonal events, their effects are longer-term. With tight supplies, will this year be the bumper crop we need?
