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Posts related to ‘Agriculture’

China’s Corn Shortage and a Lack of Solutions

Posted: September 29, 2011 at 6:29 am

China’s Ministry of Agriculture said it will have to make an extraordinary effort to increase the nation’s supply of corn. That assumes the government can control the weather, the quality ...
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Cargill Trusts Uses Mosaic S&P 500 News To Sell More Shares (MOS)

Posted: September 22, 2011 at 8:35 am

The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) might have been indicated higher on the news that it was going to be added to the S&P 500 Index, but news of yet another ...
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No Ethanol Subsidy, No Problem (BG, RDS-A, CZZ, ADM, VLO, PEIX, GPRE, PBR, FUE)

Posted: August 19, 2011 at 12:01 pm

What will happen to ethanol makers when the US subsidy ends in December, as appears increasingly likely? Bunge Ltd. (NYSE: BG) apparently believes that demand  will continue strong, at least ...
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New Uncertainty in Farm Equipment Sales (DE, CNH, AGCO, CAT, CF, POT, DBA, MOO)

Posted: August 17, 2011 at 12:35 pm

Farm equipment maker Deere & Co. (NYSE: DE) reported fiscal third quarter EPS of $1.69 this morning, just $0.02 better than analysts' consensus estimate. Revenue totaled $8.37 billion, significantly better ...
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Food, Ethanol Prices Set To Rise Again (ADM, DE, POT, VLO, PEIX, GPRE, KFT, SJM, GIS, K, TSN, HRL, SFD, MOO, DBA)

Posted: August 12, 2011 at 9:12 am

Hot, dry weather is now expected to reduce the US corn harvest and lift consumer prices for everything from breakfast cereal to pump prices at the local service station. Agricultural ...
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Are There Winners If Oil Falls to $80? (XOM, CVC, COP, SD, VLO, MPC, TSO, WNR, UAL, DAL, AMR, LUV, DRYS, DSX, UNP, CSX, NSC, FDX, UPS, ADM, POT, MOS, CF)

Posted: August 5, 2011 at 1:05 pm

The price for WTI crude oil fell below $83/barrel momentarily today as the market takes another shellacking, down around 200 points just before noon. Both crude and the wider market ...
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AgFeed Joins More China Woes (FEED)

Posted: August 2, 2011 at 11:56 am

More woes are coming out of China regarding Chinese companies... AgFeed Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: FEED), an animal nutrition and commercial hog producer in China, has given a preliminary report on ...
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2011 Becomes Year of Biofuel IPOs… Renewable Energy Files (REGI, KIOR, SZYM, GEVO, AMRS, CDXS)

Posted: July 19, 2011 at 9:50 am

2011 may be off to a "Web 2.0 IPO Year" but it might just as easily be "The Year of Biofuel IPOs"... Biodiesel maker Renewable Energy Group Inc. has filed ...
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M&A Twist: BHP Snags Petrohawk for $12.1 Billion (BHP, HK, CHK, XOM, POT, FCG)

Posted: July 15, 2011 at 7:47 am

The largest mining company in the world just got a little bigger. Australia's BHP Billiton Ltd. (NYSE: BHP) has agreed to acquire Petrohawk Energy Corp. (NYSE: HK) for $12.1 billion, ...
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More US Corn for Ethanol Than Anything Else (ADM, VLO, PEIX, GPRE)

Posted: July 13, 2011 at 9:48 am

More than 40% of this year's US corn harvest, about 5.05 billion bushels, is expected to be used to produce ethanol. That surpasses an estimated 5 billion bushels that will ...
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The Nine Foods The Government Is Paying For You To Eat

Posted: July 6, 2011 at 6:42 am

Over the past 15 years, the federal government paid nearly $150 billion in subsidies to U.S. farmers. It paid $77 billion to plant corn in the U.S. between 1995 and ...
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Goldman Sachs Calls For Much Lower Food Prices (GS, ADM, BG, TSN, SFD, KFT, CAG, GIS, K)

Posted: July 2, 2011 at 7:15 am

Analysts at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) have reversed a forecast from just two weeks ago suggesting that corn, wheat and soybean prices would be higher due to reduced ...
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Commodities Watch: Corn-Wheat Imbalance Continues (DBA, MOO)

Posted: June 28, 2011 at 2:07 pm

For the past couple of weeks the price of corn has risen above the price of wheat, a market condition that has occurred just twice before in the last 27 ...
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Are More Mosaic Shares To Be Sold? Already? (MOS)

Posted: June 23, 2011 at 2:45 pm

The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) was perhaps one of the largest secondary offerings out there of its sort.  The tally was close to $6 billion when it was all said ...
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Beyond Dodd-Frank… Frank-Paul Marijuana Legalization Legislation? (MO, RAI, BUD, TAP, PEP)

Posted: June 22, 2011 at 5:20 pm

If Altria Group Inc. (NYSE: MO), Reynolds American Inc. (NYSE: RAI), Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD), and Molson Coors Brewing Company (NYSE: TAP)  should keep an eye on efforts to legalize ...
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