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INTL FCStone Inc. to Host Second Annual Global Markets Outlook Conference

Market Watch 17 Jan 2019

At the conference, over 385 attendees will have the opportunity to interact with professionals from across nearly all global financial and commodity markets, including producers, consumers and intermediaries from across the entire commodity complex, as well as financial ......

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Want to Buy Ethical Food? Scan with Your Phone for Fast Facts

Voa News 17 Jan 2019

It plans to expand in the next two years to cover other commodities like palm oil and timber ... The digital tool will cover environmental, social and human rights, and hopes to attract sustainability bodies and schemes, as well as corporations and major commodities producers, said Dermot O'Gorman, CEO of WWF-Australia....

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Aurora Cannabis: With 1M Kg Of Pot Per Year, Will They Dominate?

Seeking Alpha 17 Jan 2019

Aurora is inventing processes for producing cannabis and have fully automated the entire process - removing the human factor as much as possible ... of facility capable of producing some 100,000 kg ... It may very well be that cannabis companies get treated like the commodity product producers they are. commodity producers....

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It’s because of his entrepreneurial originality, financial and busines

Agweb 17 Jan 2019

Fast forward to today, and the operation includes 17,000 acres of white and yellow corn, soybeans, canola and wheat, as well as 37,000 sows that produce 850,000 market hogs annually ... “We are in a commodity production business and the lower cost producer is the one that wins,” he says....

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Alcoa's Fourth-Quarter Revenue In Line With Expectations

Wall Street Journal 17 Jan 2019

Alcoa reported a profit of $43 million, or 23 cents a share, in the fourth quarter, as its bauxite and alumina segments produced higher profit despite weakness in commodity prices ... ....

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OSU's Noller to step down as department head, concentrate on hemp

Capital Press 17 Jan 2019

When President Trump signed the 2018 Farm Bill, it legalized hemp, a variety of cannabis that does not produce the psychoactive component of marijuana. The crop has experienced dramatic growth in Oregon the last two years and is expected to be worth $1 billion in 2019, Noller said, potentially making it Oregon’s number one commodity....

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During a live taping of U.S. Farm Report at the 2019 Top Producer Summ

Agweb 17 Jan 2019

During a live taping of U.S. Farm Report at the 2019 Top Producer Summit in Chicago, analysts shared the opportunities and threats they think commodity markets will face this year. “With the government being closed, missing last week’s crop report was a bummer to say the least,” says Pete Meyer of S&P Global Platts ... .......

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Traders Wait on Sidelines Until More Data Released

Agweb 17 Jan 2019

Paul Georgy serves as president/CEO of Allendale, Inc., a worldwide agricultural advisory and research firm that provides agricultural commodity price research and risk management alternatives for producers, major food companies, international corporations, foreign governments, and major news vendors....

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Farmers bear the burden of deflation

Indian Express 16 Jan 2019

The annual inflation based on it — which is closer to producer realisations than at the retail end — has been lower both for food articles and non-food agricultural articles (oilseeds, cotton, jute, silk, tobacco, raw hides, fodder, natural rubber, flowers, etc) during the last ......

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SDSU Pierre Regional Center

Prairie Pioneer 16 Jan 2019

Ruth Beck, Crops Agronomy Field Specialist Most crop producers recognize the value of a diversified crop rotation. However, with commodity prices where they are, it might be difficult to give crop rotation the priority ranking it really deserves .......

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Thanks to shutdown, expected farm data wasn't released last Friday. Here's why that matters

Winona Daily News 16 Jan 2019

"I don't think you have a lot of producers that spend a lot of time looking directly at the reports," he said, "but they impact the corn and soybeans and all the commodity markets. And those are the signals the producers use to determine what their plans might be for the year ahead in terms of the crops that they plant."....

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Brazilian hunger for meat fattened on soy is deforesting the Cerrado: report

Mongabay 16 Jan 2019

Image courtesy of Global Canopy ... Soy is not only one of Brazil’s most important and profitable export commodities, but also heavily used as animal feed and as a biodiesel energy crop. In 2017, Brazil produces 16.3 million tons of soymeal for its domestic market, and more than 90 percent of that became animal feed....

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Addressing agrarian distress: An alternative ‘area planning’ price support scheme for farmers

Indian Express 16 Jan 2019

Farmers are always in distress when prices of their produce are subdued ... It is clear, then, that a completely new approach for price support is required, especially in today’s scenario where India has moved from a structurally deficit to surplus producer in most agri-commodities....