Commodity Producers

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Green energy source going to waste

The Star 24 Sep 2018

BEING a major agricultural commodity producer in the region, Malaysia produces at least 168 million tonnes of biomass, including timber and oil palm waste, rice husks, coconut trunk fibres, municipal waste and sugarcane waste annually ... ....

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Trade policy for Nigeria? Focus on exports, not imports

Business Day Online 24 Sep 2018

In fact, he once said that Nigeria has “over 100 globally export-ready commodities” waiting to be produced and projected that Nigeria could earn “$100bn annually from non-oil exports” ... Why would any company bother to produce for the export markets when they have a protected domestic market? Yet, as the saying goes, “industries that can compete globally will thrive locally”....

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Govt draws up ₹ 1,500 crore plan to boost agri exports

Live Mint 23 Sep 2018

The draft policy said there were opportunities for developing agriculture export special economic zones (SEZs), primarily aimed at producing agriculture commodities for certain countries, which are largely dependent on imports ... The ministry has also shortlisted 10 commodities to focus on for farm, infrastructure and market intervention....

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Farm payments to fall short of losses

The Bismarck Tribune 23 Sep 2018

Direct cash payments will go to producers of seven farm commodities. Five are produced in North Dakota ... Calculated across all bushels produced, rather than the half on which compensation is calculated, that is about a third of the amount by which soybean prices have fallen since Trump fired the opening shots of this trade war last spring ... On half of production, the state’s dairy producers will get about $210,000....

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Kansas Profile | Stephanie Eckroat, Kansas Dairy Association and Kansas Dairy Commission

The Mercury 23 Sep 2018

Got milk? If so, it is because some dairy farmer milked a cow, and a bunch of other people worked hard to get it to you ... Now, that’s rural ... The Kansas Dairy Association pursued the establishment of a producer-funded check-off promotional program, as other commodities have operated under ... Similar to other producer groups, the association and commission now operate under separate farmer-elected boards with unified management ... ....

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Farmers' bailout checks start arriving as Trump's trade war escalates

Omaha World-Herald 22 Sep 2018

Those retaliatory tariffs have dimmed demand for U.S ... From Sept ... The administration has planned an initial $4.7 billion in payments for producers of commodities such as corn, cotton, dairy products, pork, sorghum, soybeans and wheat ... Farmers can apply for the assistance only after their harvests are complete, so the money has likely gone primarily to producers of wheat, dairy products and livestock, the USDA said ... products. ....

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Fall River Wonders: What are excise taxes all about?

The Herald News 22 Sep 2018

FALL RIVER – Herald News reader Ronald Bernardo asks, “We pay excise taxes on our cars every year and I've always wondered where does the term excise come from?”The term “excise,” according to Merriam-Webster, means “a tax levied on certain goods and commodities produced or sold within a country and on ......

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Cards mapping soil profile of lands distributed to farmers

The Hindu 22 Sep 2018

Maheswar Rao, Secretary, Agriculture Department, said schemes are being envisioned to deal with a possibility of depression of commodity prices due to an increase in production in these areas. “We will encourage and aid farmer producer societies to be set up in these areas so that their bargaining power increases with sellers and bulk inputs can be lowered,” he said ... .......

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Economy growing despite rising oil prices, experts say

Arkansas Online 22 Sep 2018

"It's likely to be a meeting high on politics and low on decisions," said Ole Sloth Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank A/S. "The producers that count are producing at will" and Saudi Arabia and Russia are likely to produce even more oil, he said ... likely reclaimed the title of world's biggest oil producer earlier this year by surpassing the output of Saudi Arabia in February and Russia over the summer....

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Farmers tighten belts amid uncertainty

News-Press Now 22 Sep 2018

Eastern Iowa farmers Dave Walton of Wilton and Mike Paustian of Walcott said they expected most Iowa farmers won’t have a choice but to participate in a federal program currently offering up to $4.7 billion in aid for producers hard hit by the lowest commodity prices in six years brought on by President Donald Trump’s tariff war with China and renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement....

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Iowa farmers tighten belts amid trade and tariff uncertainty

Cedar Rapids Gazette 22 Sep 2018

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In copper options debut, Shanghai sets challenge to New York, London

This is Money 21 Sep 2018

Options help metal consumers, producers and traders manage price exposure ... ShFE said in a statement that 120 members and investors took part in the opening auction, including top producers Tongling Nonferrous Metals and Jiangxi Copper, commodities trader COFCO, China Merchants Securities and Shenzhen-based brokerage Jinrui Futures....

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