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8 Dec 2015
By Alastair StewartDTN South America Correspondent CHICAGO (DTN) -- Ongoing investments in grain terminals at ports across northern Brazil will stimulate continued expansion of soybean and corn acres in coming years, Brazilian speakers told DTN/The Progressive Farmer Ag Summit attendees Tuesday. Farms across Brazil's grain frontier in Mato Grosso a...
8 Dec 2015
By Katie MicikDTN Markets Editor CHICAGO (DTN) -- CoBank President Mary McBride thinks the ag economy is facing some stout headwinds: a lower price environment, a strong U.S. dollar, deceleration of the Chinese economy and increased global competition in the coarse grain trade. U.S. net cash income is expected to decline by 40% in 2015, a dramatic ...
7 Dec 2015
By Alastair StewartDTN South America Correspondent SAO PAULO, Brazil (DTN) -- Brazilian soybean planting moved toward completion last week amid continued concerns about dry weather in Mato Grosso and in eastern Cerrado states like Bahia and Maranhao, according to AgRural, a local farm consultancy. Brazilian soybean planting progressed 7 percentage ...
7 Dec 2015
By Chris ClaytonDTN Ag Policy Editor CHICAGO (DTN) -- The World Trade Organization on Monday may have put a nail in the coffin of country-of-origin labels for meat products in the U.S. A WTO arbitration panel based in Geneva, Switzerland, came back Monday with a ruling that Canada could impose about $781 million (CAN $1.05 billion) in retaliatory t...
7 Dec 2015
By Ken JohnsonDTN Fertilizer Columnist AMMONIA International ammonia prices drifted lower through November. Yuzhnyy, FSU, ammonia traded in the $390 to $405 per metric ton fob (free on board -- the buyer pays for transportation of the goods) range early and fell to $340 to $350 late. (All prices in this column are wholesale.) Falling DAP prices hav...