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Amidst the gloom and mayhem in financial markets, Chinese leaders held a vitally important meeting for world food. In addition to the global economic crisis, last week’s annual policy-setting meeting tackled issues facing the
Full story...Shares of fertiliser companies are wilting. Prices falls of 30 per cent and more have been seen since Merrill Lynch and other US brokers slashed forecasts last week. This was put down to US sector major, potash producer Mosaic,
Full story...Some trouble Amiad is used to – after all, it was born on an Israeli kibbutz forty years ago. But the newly listed AIM water filtration company ran into a whole lot of unfamiliar flack this spring – exit of a major shareholder,
Full story...The sheer brutality of a bear market is writ large in the performance of Sunkar Resources which raised £36 million in June prior to listing on AIM. The price paid then was 120p per share: now the shares cost 24p. And nothing has
Full story...“Pork barrel” politics got the US$700 billion bail-out package voted through on Capital Hill on Friday night on a three-to-one margin. A guesstimate of US$100 billion was put on tax breaks offered, with the agriculture lobbies
Full story...Farmers got a piece of good news this week – a badly needed one after a terrible summer. Tesco, which takes almost a billion litres of milk a year, is giving farmers a 0.5p a litre increase! That news also reflects improving
Full story...Milk does not come from cows – it comes from multi-nationals! That message has come over very clearly in the last few weeks. Milk ads may feature bucolic cows grazing in pastoral idylls, but don’t be taken in, this is big
Full story...AIM listed Cranswick does not operate on anything like the scale of Agfeed , which we wrote about a couple of weeks ago, as China accounts for more than 50 per cent of the world's annual pig production as well as being the
Full story...Traders in agriculture commodities were transfixed, along with all market traders worldwide, by the fight to agree a bail-out for the US financial crisis. Fundamental factors were sidelined in hugely volatile trading on progress
Full story...Gyrations in commodity futures over the last few weeks – wild swings first in one direction then another – could very well have sent investors scuttling away from those new favourites, agricultural exchange traded funds! So, what
Full story...The search for a good tasting source of Omega-3’s has been a long one. For those old enough to remember, the main source of this essential nutrient used to be fish oil. Many a poor lad remembers being force-fed this unpalatable
Full story...If papyrus was good enough for the Egyptians to write on then a small Australian company reckons something very similar is good enough today. The main difference between what was used 5,000 years ago on the banks of the Nile, and
Full story...Our first Agriprods forum must surely be marked down as an unqualified success. Considerable anticipation had been building in London ahead of the event, and come the day, interested parties, ranging from high net worth
Full story...As crude oil and global equities rallied on government moves to rescue the world’s banking system in a nightmare week, commodities moved up, too. The Standard & Poor’s GSCI index of 24 raw materials jumped by 4.2 per cent on
Full story...The Chinese have long memories for anything perceived as a slight and the fact that the Chinese oil company CNOOC Ltd was forced by politicians in Washington to withdraw its US$18.5 million bid for Unocal Corporation was seen as
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Advanced Growing Systems, Inc. Enters Into Technology/Process Protection Agreement With Venture Chemicals, Inc.
Organic Growing Systems, Inc. Announces Long-Term Feedstock Supply Agreement
Organic Growing Systems, Inc. Procures Necessary Production Equipment for Factory Expansion
Organic Growing Systems, Inc. Engages Double H Equipment, Inc. for Final Design and Construction of 2nd & 3rd Fertilizer Production Lines
ANGLO EASTERN PLANTATIONS ANNOUNCES NEW ACTING CHIEF EXECUTIVE
FEA announces financial results for year ended 30 June 2008
Reports Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results and Business Highlights
MagIndustries Potash Unit Announces Updated 43-101 Reserve Report to Support Expanded Operations
