Processors told increase prices or face protests
Category: Dairy
(Farmers Weekly) - Dairy processors must increase milk prices by 1 September or face further farmer protests Full Story
Category: Dairy
(Farmers Weekly) - Dairy processors must increase milk prices by 1 September or face further farmer protests Full Story
Category: Sugar
(Bloomberg) - Sugar resumed its decline in New York on speculation further weakening of Brazil’s real will prompt the world’s Full Story
(Businessweek) - Corn gained the most in five weeks after the U.S. Department of Agriculture said the number of acres farmers were unable to plant surged, and as dry weather threatens Midwest crops. Soybeans and wheat rose. Full Story
Category: Sugar
(Bloomberg) - Biosev SA (BSEV3), Brazil’s second-biggest sugar-cane processor, cut its harvest forecast by as much Full Story
Category: Dairy, Food Safety
(Food Safety News) - After tons of its whey protein concentrate used in baby formula was found to be contaminated Full Story
Category: Cocoa
(Businessweek) - The discount for September cocoa futures against the December contract more than doubled in the past Full Story
(The Wall Street Journal) - U.S. corn futures ended the trading session narrowly higher, as market participants continued to reposition following a monthly supply-and-demand report released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Monday. The agency surprised many industry watchers by downwardly revising estimates for the year's corn crop yield Full Story
(Bloomberg) - Sugar rose to a six-week high in New York on concerns colder weather in leading producer Full Story
(Businessweek) - Soybeans fell in Chicago on speculation warmer weather next week in the U.S., the biggest grower of the Full Story
(Businessweek) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture is predicting record-high corn and soybean production in Kentucky Full Story