News: January 05, 2009
No one seems in any rush with their forecast for agriculture market prices in 2009! While Goldman Sachs and Barclays may be advising clients that the sector is a good “defensive” bet, citing world population growth, the silence
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: December 31, 2008
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News: December 31, 2008
British farmers have long been known as a bunch of whingers and it is a title that they have done little to deserve. It is the National Farmers Union that does the whingeing and it does it at the behest of the big factory
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News: December 29, 2008
Tit-for-tat spars and protectionism cast a nasty bad-tempered pall over agriculture markets as 2008 closed, giving a gloomy warning for 2009 with recession biting into demand. Indian has begun to take Indonesian, South Korean and
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News: December 27, 2008
It was ironic that that the European Union’s 27 leaders met in Poznan, Poland, to endorse a 20 per cent cut in carbon dioxide emissions by 2020 as Poland generates most of its energy from coal and has not a cat’s chance in hell
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News: December 22, 2008
Forestry has joined other industries in calling for emergency aid, with Canada’s beleaguered sector now in the long list of troubled producers queuing at governments worldwide. Not cash, but tax changes and better access to bank
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News: December 18, 2008
A towering in-tray is already piling even higher on the empty Secretary’s desk at the US Department of Agriculture. Awaiting decisions on the US mammoth agriculture subsidies are not just US corn farmers, ethanol producers and
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News: December 15, 2008
On the face of it, markets could have been forecasting some cheer for 2009, shipping in particular. The benchmark Baltic Dry Index, which covers the transport of most agriculture products, took a turn for the better, rising by 53
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News: December 11, 2008
Troubled cider group C&C has put a little fizz back into its share price with some pretty radical action. Not only has just it secured the former top managers of rival Scottish & Newcastle, but the new team is putting €1.5
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