Sunday, August 26, 2012

Food Crops News 83


FOOD CROPS Food Crops News 83 (Bản tin Cây Lương thực Quốc tế)
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Drought Forces Reductions in US Crop Forecasts
New York Times
About 40 percent of the nation's corn crop now goes to ethanol producers
— the rest to animal feed, food and exports. Retailers said that they did
not expect to have to pass along price increases to customers in the short
term. “The drought has had an ...
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Drought crop damage worsens, ethanol waiver urged
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The worst drought in more than 50 years has caused
more damage than expected to corn and soybean crops, the government said on
Friday, heightening calls for a suspension of ethanol quotas to head off
another global food ...
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Prices Surge as Drought Stunts Corn Crop
Wall Street Journal
U.S. forecasters lowered their estimates for the corn and soybean harvest
as a drought across the middle of the nation pushed up crop prices, raising
costs for livestock producers, food makers and eventually consumers. The
U.S. Department of ...
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El Nino emerges, raising fears over food prices
Reuters
TOKYO, Aug 10 (Reuters) - An El Nino weather pattern is underway and will
last until winter, Japan said on Friday, foreshadowing disruptive
conditions that could harm crops from Australia to India at a time of
rising fears about global food supplies.
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Food Versus Fuel Debate Intensifies as US Crop Predictions Shrink
SustainableBusiness.com
"Much of the reduced crop will be claimed by biofuel production in line
with US federal mandates, leaving even less food for food and feed
markets," he wrote. "An immediate temporary suspension of that mandate
would give some respite to the market and ...
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Report: US corn, soybean crops won't replenish stockpiles, raising food crisis ...
Daily Press
WASHINGTON — U.S. corn and soybean crops have been slashed even more than
expected by the worst drought in half a century and will fail to replenish
ultra-low stockpiles, a U.S. government report showed on Friday, raising
fears of a new world food ...
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Low US Crop Estimate Heightens Food-Crisis Concerns
International Business Times
The total crop yield was slashed by nearly half from last month, to 650
billion bushels from 1.2 billion. The news sent corn prices up Friday to a
record $8.43 a bushel, breaking highs last seen during the 2007-08 global
food crisis. Corn was still ...
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Congress harvests a crop failure in farm policy
OregonLive.com
Only 26 percent of the nation's corn crop is in good condition, compared
with 62 percent a year ago. ... Both bills have problems; the House bill
cuts nutrition programs too much, the Senate bill includes a crop insurance
formula likely to be very ...
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All eyes on Agriculture Department, crop report
NECN
(NECN/NBC News: Claire Leka) - All eyes are on the Agriculture Department;
it releases its monthly crop report Friday. It's the first since July's
record heat wave brought on the worst drought in half a century; it's
already affected a large swath of ...
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Critics Challenge Monsanto's Claims Extolling Benefits of Genetically
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Food Crops News 82


FOOD CROPS Food Crops News 82 (Bản tin Cây Lương thực Quốc tế)
Cây Lương thực www.cayluongthuc.blogspot.com. Photo by Hoang Long

Bar GM food crops, says parliamentary panel
The Hindu
In a major setback to the proponents of genetically modified technology in
farm crops, the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture on Thursday asked
the government to stop all field trials and sought a bar on GM food crops
(such as Bt. brinjal). The ...
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Bad Weather Pushes Up Food Prices
Wall Street Journal
"All the attention now is going to be on the forthcoming crops," said Ms.
Calpe. Officials at international organizations, including the World Bank
and the U.N. World Food Program, worry governments will react to tighter
food supplies by curbing food ...
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India Should Be More Wary of GM Crops, Parliamentary Panel Says
Science Now
NEW DEHLI—A high-profile Indian parliamentary panel on agriculture has
urged a retreat from genetically modified (GM) food crops and is seeking
the mandatory labelling of all GM foods. The report from a 31-member
standing panel of parliament ...
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Easing US ethanol mandate would help prevent food crisis-UN
Reuters
As the surge in corn prices revives a fierce food versus fuel debate, José
Graziano da Silva, the director-general of the UN's Food and Agricultural
Organization, wrote in the Financial Times newspaper that competition for a
U.S. corn crop that has ...
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US crops tell story of future world food prices
BBC News
This year he will be lucky to make $200000. Crop insurance and his own
prudence, conservatism as he calls it, should mean he will weather the lack
of storm. But there is no getting around the fact that two of the staples
of the world food industry are ...
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Global Food Reserves Falling as Drought Wilts Crops: Commodities
Businessweek
Stockpiles of the biggest crops will decline for a third year as drought
parches fields across three continents, raising food-import costs already
forecast by the United Nations to reach a near-record $1.24 trillion.
Combined inventories of corn, wheat, soybeans ...
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Critics Challenge Monsanto's Claims Extolling Benefits of Genetically ...
Between The Lines
The Monsanto corporation, an international leader in biotechnology, is
currently spending millions of dollars on an advertising campaign to
convince the public and politicians that the genetically engineered food
crops that they've developed and are ...
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Is Summer Drought Dire Straits for Crops, Food and Agri Sector?-BMO ...
Equities.com
"Agricultural prices have probably gotten ahead of themselves and could
back down once there is greater clarity as to what the crop yield will be,"
said Mr. Rinneard. "Agri inputs account for less than 50 per cent of the
total cost of processed food; labour and ...
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Police to Grow Own Food
AllAfrica.com
The Uganda Police Force is set to open up plantations to grow food crops as
a solution to the meagre pay given to its officers and as a way of
alleviating the effects of inflation. The Inspector General of Police, Lt.
Gen. Kale Kayihura, said the programme will be ...
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Agriculture chief says food prices should not skyrocket because of drought
KTVL
He says even if commodities prices were to double, "you would probably only
see a half a percent to maybe as much as a percent increase in food costs."
And Vilsack says crop yields may not come up as short as some have
suggested. He says the effects ...
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ANN LOVEJOY | Nurturing homegrown food crops - Kitsap Sun Mobile
ANN LOVEJOY | Nurturing homegrown food crops. By Ann Lovejoy Published
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Food Crops News 81


FOOD CROPS Food Crops News 81 (Bản tin Cây Lương thực Quốc tế)
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ANN LOVEJOY | Nurturing homegrown food crops
Kitsap Sun
Since the whole country has been experiencing unusual weather lately, we
can consider ourselves fortunate to just be dealing with our usual variety
of summerish weather. As usual, cool-season crops thrived in the chilly,
wet spring and early summer. And, as ...
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The Hunger Wars in Our Future
Huffington Post
Because so many nations depend on grain imports from the U.S. to supplement
their own harvests, and because intense drought and floods are damaging
crops elsewhere as well, food supplies are expected to shrink and prices to
rise across the planet.
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Dwindling US crops add to global inflation challenge
Reuters
USDA supply/demand report could fuel food inflation. * USDA set to revise
down corn, soy crop estimates. * Analysts eye cut in acres to be harvested.
* Crop trouble in Europe, poor monsoon in India. By K.T. Arasu. CHICAGO,
Aug 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. ...
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Shrinking US crops pose inflation challenge for countries
Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO (Reuters) - For nations like China and India fighting to tamp down
inflation while spurring growth, even as the global economy faces headwinds
from Europe's debt crisis, shrinking U.S. crops could be an additional
headache as food prices creep ...
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Speculative hoarding fuels food-price hike
Himalayan Times
The rapid rise in prices of all basic food crops –– corn, wheat,
soybean, cereals and rice –– along with other food items like cooking
oil, has been devastating for the poor, said secretary at the Ministry of
Commerce and Supplies Lal Mani Joshi in a programme ...
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Britain faces food price hikes as fears grow that drought-hit Russia may impose ...
Daily Mail
Lack of rain in America's breadbasket intensified at an unprecedented rate,
driving concern food prices could soar even further if crops in the world's
key producer are decimated. Experts fear the US crisis, coupled with the
problems in Russia, could cause ...
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US Drought Takes Toll on Farmers, Global Food Market
HispanicBusiness.com
Although it is hard to estimate the exact loss from the drought, as many
crops are still in the growing season, there is little doubt that the
overall U.S. agricultural production will be reduced for the current crop
year. The USDA said the drought, along with heat, ...
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The Silver Lining in the Drought
New York Times
This limited diversity of crops restricts our diets, degrades our soils and
increases our vulnerability to droughts. Farmers in the central plains used
to grow a greater diversity of food and forage crops, including oats, hay,
alfalfa and sorghum. But they gradually ...
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