Indonesia, Third-Biggest Cocoa Grower, Set to Turn Net Buyer
Category: Cocoa
(Bloomberg) - Cocoa imports by Indonesia may more than double next year, transforming the third-largest Full Story
Category: Cocoa
(Bloomberg) - Cocoa imports by Indonesia may more than double next year, transforming the third-largest Full Story
(Bloomberg) - Soybeans snapped the longest slump in more than a month on speculation that farmers in the U.S., last season’s largest grower, may withhold supplies after spot prices fell to the cheapest since June. Full Story
Category: Miscellaneous
(Reuters) - U.N. agencies want to strengthen national drought policies after warnings that climate change Full Story
Category: Sugar
(Reuters) - Shares in sugar companies gain on hopes the government will remove a requirement that they Full Story
(AgWeb) - Soybean futures fell, capping the longest slump in a month, on speculation that a quickening Full Story
(Businessweek) - Wheat declined for a second day on speculation supply may increase from Russia and the European Union, and as commodities fell on concern that a levy on bank deposits in Cyprus may deepen Europe’s debt crisis. Full Story
Category: Oilseeds
(Bloomberg) - Paraguay will more than double soybean exports this year as farms recover from drought, spurring the fastest economic growth in Full Story
Category: Sugar
(AgWeek) - Sugar prices have plummeted from a year ago, and that is already having its effect on sugar beet cooperative stock prices and stock joint venture Full Story
Category: Food Safety
(BusinessWeek) - Following earlier scares over melamine-laced milk powder, exploding watermelons, and pesticide-soaked vegetables, food safety is again on the minds of the Chinese Full Story
Category: Food Safety
(Food Safety News) - For the first time since former Gov. Jim Doyle vetoed a bill in 2010 to legalize the sale of unpasteurized milk in America’s dairy state, proponents in Wisconsin are getting their ducks in a row for another serious try. A Republican state senator who authored a failed 2011 raw milk bill says he will be introducing a new proposal for consideration by the Wisconsin Legislature, which is meeting in year-round session Full Story