Tag: soybean

• Wednesday, February 2nd 2011 - 01:13 UTC

  Soy prices soar as Argentine ports are blocked by week-long strike

  

  The provincial government of Santa Fe home of Argentina's grain export hub has requested the federal government to help end a week-old strike that is delaying shipments from one of the world's biggest food suppliers, the provincial Labour minister said on Tuesday.

• Monday, January 17th 2011 - 08:57 UTC

  Argentine farmers are back in a strike

  

  Argentine farmers have halted sales of wheat, corn and soy in a strike over export curbs, rekindling a dispute that helped drive global grains prices to record highs three years ago.

• Thursday, January 6th 2011 - 13:00 UTC

  Uruguay exports soar 23.8% in value during 2010 over the previous year

  

  Uruguayan exports soared 23.8% in value during 2010 compared to 2009 which represent a new record according to the country’s Union of Exporters. Sales totaled 6.76 billion US dollars while imports to the month of October (the latest Central Bank officially available data) reached 6.7 billion USD, which represent a 18.6% increase in the first ten months of last year.

• Thursday, December 23rd 2010 - 08:39 UTC

  Brazilian soy crop estimate up; coffee prices reach a 13-year high

  

  Soybean growers in Brazil, the world’s largest producer after the U.S., may harvest more of the oilseeds next year than the government estimated earlier this month, Agriculture Minister Wagner Rossi said on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, December 22nd 2010 - 05:32 UTC

  Oil World reduces Argentine soybean crop estimates because of lack of rain

  

  Oil World has for a second time in two weeks reduced Argentina soybean crop hopes warning that, thanks to dry weather, it could be on course for a fall of more than 20%.

• Friday, December 3rd 2010 - 06:29 UTC

  Uruguay headed for a record year in exports; Brazil main trade partner

  

  Uruguay’s exports jumped 23.3% during the first eleven months of 2010, anticipating a new value record for the year. Exports totalled 6.1 billion US dollars between January-November compared to 4.95 billion in the same period a year earlier and are higher than the twelve month previous record of 6.1 billion in 2008, according to Uruguay’s Exporters’ Union.

• Thursday, December 2nd 2010 - 21:56 UTC

  Paraguayan grains and oil seeds 2010 crop reached a record 12.7 million tons

  

  Paraguay summer and winter crops in 2010 totalled 12.688.908 tons establishing a new record according to agronomist Luis Cubilla from the Agriculture Biotechnology Institute. The last best harvest was in 2008 with 10.5 million tons.

• Wednesday, November 10th 2010 - 00:52 UTC

  Soybeans futures at their highest in two years on USDA report on US crop

  

  Soybeans futures settled at their highest in more than two years on Tuesday after the Agriculture Department, USDA, slashed its forecast for the United States soybean production to 3.375 billion bushels from 3.408 billion bushels the previous month.

• Monday, November 8th 2010 - 15:15 UTC

  Argentina anticipates record crop and export surpluses of wheat and corn

  

  Argentina’s Agriculture and Livestock minister Julian Domínguez and representatives from the cereals and oilseed markets coincided that Argentina will have a record crop this 2010/11 season and considerable export surplus of wheat and corn: 5.5 million and 18.5 million tons respectively.

• Friday, November 5th 2010 - 22:58 UTC

  China opens beef market to Argentina; farmers warn lack of sufficient cattle

  

  China will open its market to Argentine beef consolidating the end of a conflict that started earlier this year when Beijing decided to suspend “on sanitary reasons” the import of soy-oil from Argentina, a ban that was only lifted last month.