Commodity pricing

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Falling wheat acres could be boost for corn, soybeans in US

By Aerin Einstein-Curtis

Low wheat prices are prompting questions about how US feed crop acres will be allocated next year, as acreage that is not planted with winter wheat could add to production of other feed crops like corn and soybeans, says analyst.

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USDA: Soy, corn crops see delayed harvest

By Aerin Einstein-Curtis

Harvest pace and crop quality continues to lag for some US feed crops, even as producers see weather-related delays and anticipate colder or freezing temperatures.

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Special Edition: Aqua feed innovation

Rabobank sees role for feed industry as the driver of change in aquaculture

By Jane Byrne

After years of growth, the aqua feed industry is experiencing a deceleration, with increasing overcapacity in nearly all key markets globally. The causes vary and are often region-specific - Rabobank says the aqua feed industry will need to think out...

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Ushering the commodity trading industry into the digital age

By Aerin Einstein-Curtis

The Global Commodity Technology Association (CGTA) is launching with a focus on supporting and improving digitization and modernization in the global agricultural commodity industry, says managing director.

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AFIA highlights Vietnam in export expansion

By Aerin Einstein-Curtis

Following the receipt of federal funding, the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) is assessing Vietnam’s market potential as an export destination for US feed or feed ingredients.

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Feed grain producers, users see volatile start to year

By Aerin Einstein-Curtis

Ongoing weather and trade challenges are keeping the agricultural industry’s focus on markets, exports and tariffs as harvest starts and global economies slow, say CoBank analysts.

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USDA: Soybean exports expected to see boost in 2020

By Aerin Einstein-Curtis

US agricultural exports are projected to reach $137bn in fiscal year (FY) 2020, up $2.5bn from the revised forecast for FY 2019. The anticipated increase will primarily be driven by higher exports of pork, beef, soybeans, and horticultural products, found...

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US poultry producers want corn use curbed in biofuel

By Aerin Einstein-Curtis

The US National Chicken Council (NCC) is asking the country's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to slash proposed ethanol volumes for 2020, citing disruptions to the US feed supply.

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US feed ingredients, pork may see reprieve from Chinese tariffs

By Aerin Einstein-Curtis

Certain US feed and agricultural products are likely to be excluded from punitive Chinese tariffs, as the US and China move to ease trade war tensions. Over the last week, both Washington and Beijing offered gestures of good will.

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Downgraded wheat production forecasts for Australia

By Jane Byrne

Most of the Northern Hemisphere grain production is harvested or weeks away, says the AHDB in its most recent reviews of global grain and oilseed markets, and so all eyes are now trained on the weather conditions in the Southern Hemisphere.

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US feed crop, agricultural producers bear brunt of foreign tariffs

By Aerin Einstein-Curtis

It has been US feed group and agricultural good producers – not the importing country or its consumers – that have paid most of the cost of the retaliatory tariffs arising out of US disputes with trading partners, say CoBank analysts.

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US, China ratchet up tariffs, trade tensions

By Aerin Einstein-Curtis

Feed ingredient producers and industry members are decrying the escalation in the ongoing trade tensions between the US and China, which are prompting fears of longer-term market damage.