Corn & Soy Crop Tour Reveals Concerns
Category: FeaturedWebinar, Grains, Oilseeds
(IngredientNew.com) - The Corn & Soy annual crop tour, held by Doane’s Agricultural Reports, just wrapped Full Story
Category: FeaturedWebinar, Grains, Oilseeds
(IngredientNew.com) - The Corn & Soy annual crop tour, held by Doane’s Agricultural Reports, just wrapped Full Story
(Businessweek) - High heat and little rain during the past week led to an unusual, quick expansion of drought conditions in Iowa and Illinois, damaging crops in the biggest U.S. corn- and soybean-growing states. About 25 percent of Iowa had a moderate drought on Aug. 27, up from 7.9 percent a week earlier, while Illinois jumped to 20 percent from none, the U.S. Drought Monitor said yesterday in a report. Full Story
(Businessweek) - A glut of corn has damped interest by biofuel makers in a U.S. government program to sell surplus sugar for ethanol, potentially decreasing its effectiveness in propping up sugar prices.
With the U.S. harvest of corn, the nation’s biggest crop and the source of most of its ethanol, expected to set a record this year Full Story
Category: Grains
(BakingBusiness.com) - Brazil has emerged as the second-largest market (after China) for U.S. wheat thus far in the 2013-14 Full Story
(Reuters) - Researchers in the key corn-growing state of Illinois are finding significant damage from rootworms in farm Full Story
(Businessweek) - Soybeans and corn climbed for the third time in four days as hot, dry weather in the Midwest Full Story
(The Wall Street Journal) - U.S. soybean futures halted their weeklong rally Tuesday, pressured by profit-taking after Full Story
(Businessweek) - Corn swung between gains and losses after climbing the most in more than a year as investors weighed the outlook for hot, dry weather in the Midwest against prospects of a record U.S. crop. Soybeans fluctuated. Full Story
(Futures Magazine) - Corn: There were a few factors that helped push the corn up through 500 today. Weather Full Story
(Businessweek) - Jay Nord surveyed his wheat field from the seat of a combine as he mowed down this year's crop. Full Story