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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Coffee, Sugar and Cocoa Prices
Arabica Coffee Sheds 3.7% as Brazil Currency Plunges Coffee futures tumbled 3.7% in New York on Friday on an increase in global exports of the beans and a sharp drop in top coffee-grower Brazil’s currency against the USD. ICCO Revises Up 2011-2012 Cocoa Balance to a Surplus The International Cocoa Organization or ICCO has revised [...]
Higher prices erase gains to US Farm income
Higher prices erase gains to US Farm income The US Department of Agriculture USDA said Tuesday that net farm income in the US would fall 3.3% in Y 2012, to $114-B from 2011’s record high net income of $116-B. Net cash income is down 1.4% Y-Y, to $132.8-B. The agency says: Despite gains in almost [...]
Cocoa, Coffee, Sugar, Orange Juice Prices and Trading
Cocoa, Coffee, Sugar, Orange Juice Ivory Coast to Base Semi-finished-Cocoa Tax on Weight Ivory Coast, the world’s top producer of cocoa beans, is expected to levy its export tax on semi-finished cocoa products based on their equivalent weight in beans, a major international exporter said Tuesday. Cameroon’s Aug-Sep 2012-13 Cocoa Grindings Soar on Year Cameroon’s [...]
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Economist Shayne Heffernan of www.livetradingnews.com on Agriculture According to the OECD Agricultural production needs to increase by 60% over the next 40 years to meet rising demand for food. Additional production will also be necessary to provide feedstock for expanding biofuel production. Increasing agricultural productivity will be central to containing food prices in a context [...]
Chocolate: Sweet Path to Nobel Prize
Chocolate: Sweet Path to Nobel Prize? By Chris Kaiser, Cardiology Editor, MedPage Today Published: October 12, 2012 Swiss chocolate is world renowned for its luxurious richness, but now it may also be known for it’s brain-enhancing power. An analysis in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that Switzerland’s high consumption of chocolate correlates with [...]
Commodities Price Update and Outlook Grains, Metals, Energy
Grain Prices Russia may limit grain exports this autumn if domestic prices rise sharply, Economy Minister Andrei Belousov said Friday, Russian newswires reported. “The question of shutting off the export of grain is one of the dynamics of the domestic price for grain. We are currently monitoring that trend. Given such trends, it’s entirely possible [...]
Why Chocolate is Good for You
Consuming flavanol-rich Cocoa may enhance brain function Eating cocoa flavanols daily may help improve mild cognitive impairment, said a new research published this week in the American Heart Association’s journal Hypertension. In this study, 90 elderly participants with mild cognitive impairment were randomized to drink daily either 990 milligrams (high), 520 mg (intermediate) or 45 [...]
Cocoa Sustainability Stakeholders Convene for 21st World Cocoa Foundation Partnership Meeting
Global cocoa sustainability stakeholders are gathering today in Washington, D.C. for the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) 21st Partnership Meeting & Roundtable Sessions. More than 300 guests from the cocoa industry, governments, NGOs, academia, and research institutes from 28 countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe, have convened to address some of the most pressing [...]
Chocolate Delights in Singapore
Chocolate fans convene at Resorts World Sentosa this May. Internationally-known chocolate chef Bruno Le Derf, Meilleur Ouvrier de France Chocolatier Confiseur (The Best Craftsman of France Chocolatier) bestowed by the French President in 2007, will be unravelling the secrets of cocoa. Join chocolate chef Bruno Le Derf as he demonstrates the making of three chocolate [...]
America Buys Organic Products
Americans are buying nontoxic food A new report shows that US shoppers are spending more than $30-B to avoid foods with toxic chemicals. According to the latest data from the Organic Trade Association (OTA), the organic industry grew nearly 10% in Y 2011. By definition, organic farming bans the use of synthetic pesticides, energy-intensive components [...]
Soybean, Wheat, Corn, Cotton Futures Preview with Live Quotes and Charts
The US Agriculture after the Closing Bell Report Wheat futures on Monday closed mostly 0.03 to 0.04 higher in Chicago, narrowly mixed in Kansas City and fractionally to 0.02 higher in most Minneapolis contracts. That was good for a mid-range close in Chicago and Minneapolis, while Kansas City futures ended low-range. Wheat futures were lightly [...]
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