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Soft Commodities, Top Stories on the Day
Soft Commodities, Top Stories on the Day ICE, KSS Arabica-Coffee, Sugar Futures Fall to New Lows Arabica-coffee and raw-sugar prices fell to multiyear lows as outlooks for record supplies of the 2 commodities, largely from the world’s biggest grower of each, Brazil drove selling. COCOA Natra Sees 2013 Cocoa Grindings Higher at 35,000-36,000 Tons The [...]
Court decision: Loders Croklaan must not be “IOI” in Germany
Court decision: Loders Croklaan must not be “IOI” in Germany Hamburg, 06.05.2013 Frankfurt’s Court of Appeals was to decide who may use the term “IOI” as company sign in Germany. Hamburg based Imperial-Oel-Import, a family owned supplier of sustainably sourced natural oils, fats and waxes founded 1920, had been using “IOI” as a logo since [...]
Top Stories Sugar, Cocoa, Coffee
Top Stories Sugar, Cocoa, Coffee ICE Sugar Sugar prices are tumbling as investors brace for a rush of supply from Brazil this year. Raw Sugar Hits Fresh 33-Month Low; Cotton Sags on Supplies Raw-sugar futures Wednesday tumbled to a fresh 33-month low, as market watchers said Brazilian mills tried to lock in prices for the [...]
Corn Market Recap
Corn Market Recap May Corn finished down 7 1/4 at 638 1/2, 9 off the high and 1/2 up from the low. July Corn closed down 9 1/2 at 614. This was 3/4 up from the low and 11 1/4 off the high. May Corn traded lower Tuesday and Dec Corn made a new low [...]
Antibiotic Resistant Superbugs Crawl Into US Food System
Antibiotic Resistant Superbugs Crawl Into US Food System Antibiotic-resistant bacteria called “superbugs” are entering the nation’s food system and endangering consumers at an alarming rate, according to researchers who analyzed data from the federal government. The Environmental Working Group said Monday that it had revied studies from the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System published in [...]
China developed Hybrid Rice to help the Philippines achieve Rice self-sufficiency
China developed Hybrid Rice to help the Philippines achieve Rice self-sufficiency By using the Hybrid Rice technology successfully developed by China, the Philippines, one of the world’s largest Rice importers, could become self-sufficient in the staple food and could even start exporting Rice to other countries. This was the consensus that emerged at the first [...]
Organic Farming in Indonesia
The organic foods stocking the shelves of Indonesian supermarkets might not actually be organic, the Ministry of Trade warned on Tuesday. More than 70 percent of Indonesia’s organic farms lack the necessary certificates proving the products are actually organic, the director general of standards and consumer protection at the Ministry of Trade said. “From the [...]
Bird flu takes toll on China’s poultry industry
Bird flu takes toll on China’s poultry industry Steep losses for farmers and workers, sector is expected to shrink this year Chinese poultry farming has seen steep losses because of a sharp drop in market demand since the H7N9 virus outbreak began earlier this month, industry insiders said. “At present, the company’s refrigeration warehouse with [...]
Sugar, Orange Juice, Cotton, Coffee News
Global Sugar-Supply Surplus Expected in 2013-14 Season Global sugar supplies are on track to outpace demand for the 4th season in a row, a factor that is expected to pressure prices for the sweetener, a senior economist at the International Sugar Organization ISO said. Orange-Juice Futures Surge 4.9% Orange-juice futures soared 9.3% this week to [...]
Drought Watch, US Agriculture
Drought Watch, US Agriculture Drought conditions in the US have improved somewhat from last year, but much of the Midwest, from the Dakotas to Texas, continues to suffer from moderate to exceptional drought. Conditions improved a bit last week following some reasonably heavy rains in the southern plains of eastern Kansas down through the northern [...]
Organic Trade Boom in USA
Organic Boom in USA Eight in ten U.S. parents report they purchase organic products U.S. families are increasingly embracing organic products in a wide range of categories, with 81 percent now reporting they purchase organic at least sometimes. This finding is one of many contained in the Organic Trade Association’s (OTA’s) newly released 2013 U.S. [...]
Soft Commodities, the Top Stories of the Day
Soft Commodities, the Top Stories of the Day ICE Arabica Coffee, Short-Covering Pushes Arabica Coffee to End at 3 wk High Arabica-coffee futures climbed to a three-week high Wednesday as traders closed out bets that prices would fall amid concerns about outbreaks of Coffee-rust disease in Central America. Brazil’s 2013 Green Coffee Exports to Rise [...]
Corn Planting In US Off to a Slow Start
Corn Planting In US Off to a Slow Start CORN US farmers are getting started on planting Corn this year, but cool weather and wet ground are slowing down an early start in some states. Louisiana and Texas, neither known for large Corn production, have completed planting 95% and 54%, respectively, of their Corn crops. [...]
Agriculture the New Philippines Boom Sector
Loans released under the Agro-Industry Modernization Credit and Financing Program (AMCFP) grew by 151 percent to P1.12 billion in 2012 from that of the previous year as the number of farmer clients also grew by 15 percent to 29,496, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said in a report. The amount of loans released by the [...]
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China Economy in for a Shock
Thursday’s PMI revived investor worries about whether China can sustain an economic revival this year, after annual growth slumped to a 13-year trough in 2012. China’s factory output and investment performance for April released earlier …
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Roulette, The Devil’s Game
All of the numbers on a Roulette Wheel add up to 666, hence, that is why roulette is referred to as “The Devil’s Game.”
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