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Forecasters see rising likelihood of La Nina in 2016

May. 13, 2016 at 5:31 pm CDT

Reuters — A U.S. government weather forecaster on Thursday heightened its projections for the La Nina weather phenomenon to take place in the Northern Hemisphere later this year, on the heels of an El Nino likely to fade by early summer. The Climate Prediction Center (CPC), an agency of the […]

France’s Senate suspends palm oil tax, delays neonic ban

May. 13, 2016 at 1:32 pm CDT

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Germany looks set to abstain in EU glyphosate vote

May. 12, 2016 at 6:22 pm CDT

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JBS posts large loss, announces reorganization

May. 12, 2016 at 11:17 am CDT

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Kazakh president meets farmland protests with reshuffle

May. 6, 2016 at 7:38 pm CDT

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Beijing to release frozen pork to temper price rise

May. 5, 2016 at 5:10 pm CDT

Beijing | Reuters –– Beijing will release 3.05 million kilograms of frozen pork from its reserves over the next two months to combat rising pork prices, the city government said on Wednesday. Starting from Thursday and lasting until July 4, the Beijing municipal government will sell 50,000 kg of pork each […]

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World food prices edge up in April

May. 5, 2016 at 5:05 pm CDT

Rome | Reuters — World food prices rose slightly in April, up for the third month in a row but they remained almost 10 per cent lower than a year earlier, the United Nations food agency said on Thursday. The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) food price index, which measures […]

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Maple Leaf dishes up first-quarter profit

May. 4, 2016 at 2:07 pm CDT

Reuters — Canadian meat processor Maple Leaf Foods reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit, helped by higher earnings in its prepared meats business. Adjusted operating earnings in the meat products segment rose nearly eight-fold to $61.3 million in the Toronto company’s first quarter, helped by lower operating costs and price increases. […]

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Kazakh leader evokes Ukraine as land protests spread

May. 2, 2016 at 6:09 pm CDT

Almaty | Reuters –– Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, facing a growing wave of protests against planned changes to land ownership, evoked the image of war-torn Ukraine on Sunday as he called for national unity. Speaking at an event in Almaty to mark the annual May 1 Unity Day celebrations, Nazarbayev […]

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Russia seen extending wheat export tax for 2016-17

Apr. 28, 2016 at 4:28 pm CDT

Moscow | Reuters — Russia is likely to extend its wheat export tax for the 2016-17 marketing year, which starts on July 1, because the levy is at a minimum level under current market conditions, traders and analysts said. The government has also indicated it is unlikely to change the […]

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