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Our Hungry Planet: Cargill looms as silent giant

Veiled in secrecy, the Minnetonka-based conglomerate -- with $120 billion in annual revenues -- holds much sway over world food costs. What sets Cargill apart is not its profits -- which as far as large corporations go, are...

Biodiesel - Problems and Solutions

Biodiesel Down a dirt road amongst the green fields of Pittsboro North Carolina down Lorax lane is Piedmont biofuels where biodiesel is being produced and sold in the best way possible: locally. Piedmont Biofuels opened in 2005...

Is the Price of Farmland Falling?

up,“_ said Rex Schrader, president of Schrader Real Estate and Auction Company, which conducted all three sales. ”To get a fair comparison, we excluded everything with any structures and compared the price per acre on tracts...

Kenyan shilling forecast to weaken against the dollar

Kenya's shilling is expected to remain under pressure in coming days due to dollar demand from grain and other importers. At 1000 GMT on Wednesday, commercial banks posted the unit at 79.75/95 against the greenback compared to...

Powershares Agriculture: Power Play On Grains

"It’s time for commodities to start rallying again – especially those agriculture sectors that are increasingly coming under pressure amid declining supplies," says commodity expert Eric Roseman. In his industry-leading The...

Fate of corn, beef prices now tied to oil

Published December 3, 2008 LAKE JACKSON — Thanks to ethanol, the price of oil in New York is starting to have a lot to do with the price of corn in Chicago, Brazoria County ranchers said. And those corn prices are starting to...

Perennial biomass crops build soil carbon

Converting farm fields to energy crops can increase or decrease greenhouse gas emissions, depending on where – and which – biofuel crops are used, University of Illinois researchers report this month. The researchers analyzed...

Egg exports to Gulf hit on N-E bird flu outbreak

Setback at a time when farmers are overcoming a tough period. Gayathri G Chennai, Dec. 2 The bird flu scare in the north-east has affected the table egg exports from Namakkal to a few Gulf nations once again. During the past...

Children Dying in Haiti, Victims of Food Crisis

By Jonathan M. Katz Port-au-Price, Haiti - In pockets of Haiti accessible only by donkey or foot, children are dying of malnutrition - their already meager food supply cut by a series of devastating storms that destroyed crops,...

Kenya’s inflation reaches 29%

NAIROBI - Kenya’s annual inflation rose to 29.4% in November from October’s 28.4%, mainly due to food costs, the National Bureau of Statistics said on yesterday. Underlying inflation, which excludes food items, eased to 12.3%...

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