Agriculture

• Tuesday, April 7th 2015 - 09:15 UTC

  Argentine farmers defy Cristina Fernandez with ‘silo-bags’ to hoard soybeans

  

  Argentine farmers have stockpiled more than twice as many soybeans this year than in 2014 defying a government desperate to increase export tax revenue needed to finance rising state spending ahead of the October presidential election.


• Tuesday, April 7th 2015 - 07:51 UTC

  World soy production forecasted to fall next season; Argentina could be the exception

  

  World soybean production will fall next season for the first time in four years, undermined by a drop in US output, although the fall may not prove sufficient to support prices, Oil World said. However in South America, Argentina and Paraguay could be heading for new record crops.

• Wednesday, April 1st 2015 - 08:05 UTC

  Public-private partnership to rehabilitate Uruguay's most transited highways

  

  Spanish construction company Sacyr joined Uruguay's Grinor in a consortium bidding for a contract to recover and maintain highways in the Mercosur member country.

• Thursday, March 26th 2015 - 14:41 UTC

  Falklands' main import trading partner is the UK with 87% of all goods

  

  The United Kingdom is the main import trading partner of the Falkland Islands with 87% of all imported goods coming from the UK in 2012 (Customs and Immigration 2013) with the rest imported mostly from Chile and Uruguay, according to the latest report on the Falklands' “State of the Economy”.

• Wednesday, March 25th 2015 - 07:07 UTC

  Falklands' economy performance impressive, although volatile and vulnerable

  

  The Falkland Islands economy has witnessed impressive, although volatile, growth in recent years with unemployment rates low enough to be the envy of most countries in the world and the government is free of debt, according to the latest “State of the Economy” released by the Falklands Policy Unit.

• Tuesday, March 17th 2015 - 07:39 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez manages to split the farmers’ united front after years of confrontation

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez, on the campaign trail ahead of October’s national elections, announced on Monday the creation of a new fund which will reduce by up to 50% the 'retention' taxes on exportation rights paid by small and medium agriculture farmers.

• Friday, March 13th 2015 - 13:15 UTC

  Scientists in China announce genetically engineered cows resistant to bovine TB

  

  Scientists in China have said they produced a herd of genetically engineered cows that are better able to ward off bovine TB infection. The long-term goal of the research is to avoid the need to cull livestock by breeding disease resistant cattle.

• Wednesday, March 11th 2015 - 05:27 UTC

  Falklands' 4.000 ewes to be AI with Australian Poll Merino

  

  Australian Poll Merino genetics are being used to drive lamb survival in one of the world’s harshest wool producing environments of the Falkland Islands, reports The Rural, from Australia.

• Monday, March 9th 2015 - 11:45 UTC

  February's FAO Food Price Index at is lowest value since early 2010

  

  The FAO Food Price Index averaged 179. 4 points in February 2015, down 1.8 points (1.0 percent) from its January value and 29 points (14.0 percent) below its level in February 2014. Prices of cereals, meat and, especially, sugar, dipped last month, while they remained steady in the case of oils and rebounded sharply in the case of dairy products. The index has been on a declining path since April 2014 and has now reached its lowest value since July 2010.

• Saturday, March 7th 2015 - 07:59 UTC

  Argentina's beef production tepid recovery forecasted to remain flat in 2015

  

  Argentina's revival as a major force in beef has been slowed by a dent to calving rates from poor weather, besides by a reluctance by producers to maximize animal weights, in the face of export restrictions.