Bumper Crop News
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President Barack Obama is proposing a fundamental shift in how the U.S. feeds the hungry overseas, a plan the administration says will help more people for less money though critics warn it will cost jobs at home.
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The battle Agrium Inc. is waging with activist investor Jana Partners LLC over the fertilizer producer’s strategy is weighing on its shares just as the outlook for commodities fades.
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The Standard & Poor’s GSCI Spot Index of 24 raw materials rose 0.8 percent to settle at 654.54 at 3:51 p.m. New York time, led by natural gas.
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Efforts by Brazil to tame inflation are providing foreign-exchange traders with the biggest returns in the world by purchasing reais with funds borrowed in dollars.
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Tanzania’s coffee exports through direct sales, outside of the auction system, may rise to 60,769 metric tons in 2012-13, following a bumper crop for robusta.
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Brazil’s inflation will slow in the second half of the year as the country produces a bumper crop of grains and the real doesn’t weaken as it did last year, central bank President Alexandre Tombini said.
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Palm oil producers including Indonesia and Malaysia may need to find new uses for the world’s most-consumed edible oil to absorb the biggest-ever supplies and reverse a slump in prices, according to Frost & Sullivan.
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Returns for grain-carrying Panamax ships, the biggest vessels to navigate the Panama Canal, capped a 48 percent monthly jump on demand to haul South American farm products, according to RS Platou Markets AS.
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Sugar retreated from a 12-week high in New York on speculation that bumper crops in Brazil and India, the world’s largest producers, will ease tight supplies.
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The Standard & Poor’s GSCI Spot Index of 24 raw materials was little changed at 676.14 as natural gas and wheat gained. Sugar and nickel declined.
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